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Book SynopsisMore than 30 new essays from an international cast of specialists reflect the most recent developments in Ovidian scholarship. Written in an accessible and lively style, the essays represent a wide range of critical methodologies and approaches to Ovid's literary oeuvre.
Trade Review“The result is something quite extraordinary, a coherent and engaging treatment of the full corpus of Ovid’s writing in just under 130 pages . . . V. has produced an eminently readable, highly engaging introduction to Ovid, one that speaks to exactly the audience she had envisaged, in a voice both accessible and smart.” (The Classical Review, 1 October 2012)
“Aimed at the general reading public and at newcomers to Ovid, her book is also a delight for experienced Ovidian scholars, providing an engaging, attractive, and thoughtful overview of the poet and his works that shows why his oeuvre remains intellectually valuable as well as an enjoyable read. Fluent and accessible, the volume covers a great deal of ground with lightness of foot. Volk takes a thematic approach that cuts across individual works in productive ways, but the simple titles of the chapters – ‘Work’, ‘Life’, ‘Elegy’, ‘Myth’, ‘Art’, ‘Women’, ‘Rome’, ‘Reception’ – do not adequately convey a sense of the treasures that lie within their pages.” (Greece & Rome, 1 October 2012)
Table of ContentsList 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
