A Companion to Ovid is a comprehensive overview of one of the most influential poets of classical antiquity. * Features more than 30 newly commissioned chapters by noted scholars writing in their areas of specialization * Illuminates various aspects of Ovid's work, such as production, genre, and style * Presents interpretive essays on key poems and collections of poems * Includes detailed discussions of Ovid's primary literary influences and his reception in English literature * Provides a chronology of key literary and historical events during Ovid's lifetime
Peter E. Knox is Professor of Classics at the University of Colorado. His publications include Ovid's Metamorphoses and the Traditions of Augustan Poetry (1986) and Ovid, Heroides: Select Epistles (1995), as well as many articles on a wide range of topics in Greek and Roman literature.
List of Figures viii Notes on Contributors ix Preface xiv List of Abbreviations xv Chronological Table xvii Part I Contexts 1 1. A Poet's Life 3 Peter E. Knox 2. Poetry in Augustan Rome 8 Mario Citroni 3. Rhetoric and Ovid's Poetry 26 Elaine Fantham 4. Ovid and Religion 45 Julia Dyson Hejduk Part II Texts 59 5. The Amores: Ovid Making Love 61 Joan Booth 6. The Heroides: Female Elegy? 78 Laurel Fulkerson 7. The Ars Amatoria 90 Roy K. Gibson 8. Remedia Amoris 104 Barbara Weiden Boyd 9. Fasti: The Poet, The Prince, and the Plebs 120 Geraldine Herbert-Brown 10. The Metamorphoses: A Poet's Poem 140 E. J. Kenney 11. The Metamorphoses: Politics and Narrative 154 Gareth D. Williams 12. Tristia 170 Jo-Marie Claassen 13. Ibis 184 Martin Helzle 14. Epistulae ex Ponto 194 Luigi Galasso 15. Lost and Spurious Works 207 Peter E. Knox Part III Intertexts 217 16. Ovid and Hellenistic Poetry 219 Jane L. Lightfoot 17. Ovid and Callimachus: Rewriting the Master 236 Benjamin Acosta-Hughes 18. Ovid's Catullus and the Neoteric Moment in Roman Poetry 252 David Wray 19. Propertius and Ovid 265 S. J. Heyworth 20. Tibullus and Ovid 279 Robert Maltby 21. Ovid's Reception of Virgil 294 Richard F. Thomas Part IV Critical and Scholarly Approaches 309 22. Editing Ovid: Immortal Works and Material Texts 311 Mark Possanza 23. Commenting on Ovid 327 Peter E. Knox 24. Ovidian Intertextuality 341 Sergio Casali 25. Sexuality and Gender 355 Alison Keith 26. Ovid's Generic Transformations 370 Joseph Farrell 27. Theorizing Ovid 381 Efrossini Spentzou Part V Literary Receptions 395 28. Ovidian Strategies in Early Imperial Literature 397 Charles McNelis 29. The Medieval Ovid 411 John M. Fyler 30. Ovid in Renaissance English Literature 423 Heather James 31. Ovid and Shakespeare 442 Gordon Braden 32. Ovid in the Twentieth Century 455 Theodore Ziolkowski 33. Translating Ovid 469 Christopher Martin Bibliography 485 Index 516
Show moreA Companion to Ovid is a comprehensive overview of one of the most influential poets of classical antiquity. * Features more than 30 newly commissioned chapters by noted scholars writing in their areas of specialization * Illuminates various aspects of Ovid's work, such as production, genre, and style * Presents interpretive essays on key poems and collections of poems * Includes detailed discussions of Ovid's primary literary influences and his reception in English literature * Provides a chronology of key literary and historical events during Ovid's lifetime
Peter E. Knox is Professor of Classics at the University of Colorado. His publications include Ovid's Metamorphoses and the Traditions of Augustan Poetry (1986) and Ovid, Heroides: Select Epistles (1995), as well as many articles on a wide range of topics in Greek and Roman literature.
List of Figures viii Notes on Contributors ix Preface xiv List of Abbreviations xv Chronological Table xvii Part I Contexts 1 1. A Poet's Life 3 Peter E. Knox 2. Poetry in Augustan Rome 8 Mario Citroni 3. Rhetoric and Ovid's Poetry 26 Elaine Fantham 4. Ovid and Religion 45 Julia Dyson Hejduk Part II Texts 59 5. The Amores: Ovid Making Love 61 Joan Booth 6. The Heroides: Female Elegy? 78 Laurel Fulkerson 7. The Ars Amatoria 90 Roy K. Gibson 8. Remedia Amoris 104 Barbara Weiden Boyd 9. Fasti: The Poet, The Prince, and the Plebs 120 Geraldine Herbert-Brown 10. The Metamorphoses: A Poet's Poem 140 E. J. Kenney 11. The Metamorphoses: Politics and Narrative 154 Gareth D. Williams 12. Tristia 170 Jo-Marie Claassen 13. Ibis 184 Martin Helzle 14. Epistulae ex Ponto 194 Luigi Galasso 15. Lost and Spurious Works 207 Peter E. Knox Part III Intertexts 217 16. Ovid and Hellenistic Poetry 219 Jane L. Lightfoot 17. Ovid and Callimachus: Rewriting the Master 236 Benjamin Acosta-Hughes 18. Ovid's Catullus and the Neoteric Moment in Roman Poetry 252 David Wray 19. Propertius and Ovid 265 S. J. Heyworth 20. Tibullus and Ovid 279 Robert Maltby 21. Ovid's Reception of Virgil 294 Richard F. Thomas Part IV Critical and Scholarly Approaches 309 22. Editing Ovid: Immortal Works and Material Texts 311 Mark Possanza 23. Commenting on Ovid 327 Peter E. Knox 24. Ovidian Intertextuality 341 Sergio Casali 25. Sexuality and Gender 355 Alison Keith 26. Ovid's Generic Transformations 370 Joseph Farrell 27. Theorizing Ovid 381 Efrossini Spentzou Part V Literary Receptions 395 28. Ovidian Strategies in Early Imperial Literature 397 Charles McNelis 29. The Medieval Ovid 411 John M. Fyler 30. Ovid in Renaissance English Literature 423 Heather James 31. Ovid and Shakespeare 442 Gordon Braden 32. Ovid in the Twentieth Century 455 Theodore Ziolkowski 33. Translating Ovid 469 Christopher Martin Bibliography 485 Index 516
Show moreList of Figures viii
Notes on Contributors ix
Preface xiv
List of Abbreviations xv
Chronological Table xvii
Part I Contexts 1
1. A Poet’s Life 3
Peter E. Knox
2. Poetry in Augustan Rome 8
Mario Citroni
3. Rhetoric and Ovid’s Poetry 26
Elaine Fantham
4. Ovid and Religion 45
Julia Dyson Hejduk
Part II Texts 59
5. The Amores: Ovid Making Love 61
Joan Booth
6. The Heroides: Female Elegy? 78
Laurel Fulkerson
7. The Ars Amatoria 90
Roy K. Gibson
8. Remedia Amoris 104
Barbara Weiden Boyd
9. Fasti: The Poet, The Prince, and the Plebs 120
Geraldine Herbert-Brown
10. The Metamorphoses: A Poet’s Poem 140
E. J. Kenney
11. The Metamorphoses: Politics and Narrative 154
Gareth D. Williams
12. Tristia 170
Jo-Marie Claassen
13. Ibis 184
Martin Helzle
14. Epistulae ex Ponto 194
Luigi Galasso
15. Lost and Spurious Works 207
Peter E. Knox
Part III Intertexts 217
16. Ovid and Hellenistic Poetry 219
Jane L. Lightfoot
17. Ovid and Callimachus: Rewriting the Master 236
Benjamin Acosta-Hughes
18. Ovid’s Catullus and the Neoteric Moment in Roman Poetry
252
David Wray
19. Propertius and Ovid 265
S. J. Heyworth
20. Tibullus and Ovid 279
Robert Maltby
21. Ovid’s Reception of Virgil 294
Richard F. Thomas
Part IV Critical and Scholarly Approaches 309
22. Editing Ovid: Immortal Works and Material Texts 311
Mark Possanza
23. Commenting on Ovid 327
Peter E. Knox
24. Ovidian Intertextuality 341
Sergio Casali
25. Sexuality and Gender 355
Alison Keith
26. Ovid’s Generic Transformations 370
Joseph Farrell
27. Theorizing Ovid 381
Efrossini Spentzou
Part V Literary Receptions 395
28. Ovidian Strategies in Early Imperial Literature 397
Charles McNelis
29. The Medieval Ovid 411
John M. Fyler
30. Ovid in Renaissance English Literature 423
Heather James
31. Ovid and Shakespeare 442
Gordon Braden
32. Ovid in the Twentieth Century 455
Theodore Ziolkowski
33. Translating Ovid 469
Christopher Martin
Bibliography 485
Index 516
Peter E. Knox is Professor of Classics at the University of Colorado. His publications include Ovid's Metamorphoses and the Traditions of Augustan Poetry (1986) and Ovid, Heroides: Select Epistles (1995), as well as many articles on a wide range of topics in Greek and Roman literature.
The result is something quite extraordinary, a coherentand engaging treatment of the full corpus of Ovid s writingin just under 130 pages ... V. has produced an eminentlyreadable, highly engaging introduction to Ovid, one that speaks toexactly the audience she had envisaged, in a voice both accessibleand smart. (The Classical Review, 1 October2012) Aimed at the general reading public and at newcomers toOvid, her book is also a delight for experienced Ovidian scholars,providing an engaging, attractive, and thoughtful overview of thepoet and his works that shows why his oeuvre remains intellectuallyvaluable as well as an enjoyable read. Fluent and accessible, thevolume covers a great deal of ground with lightness of foot. Volktakes a thematic approach that cuts across individual works inproductive ways, but the simple titles of the chapters Work , Life , Elegy , Myth , Art , Women , Rome , Reception do notadequately convey a sense of the treasures that lie within theirpages. ( Greece & Rome, 1 October 2012)
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