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Book SynopsisThe open access publication of this book has been published with the support of the Swiss National Science Foundation. Death, the ultimate change, is an unexpected Leitmotiv of Ovid’s career and reception. The eighteen contributions collected in this volume explore the theme of death and transfiguration in Ovid’s own career and his posthumous reception, revealing a unity in diversity that has not been appreciated in these terms before now.
Table of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Figures Introduction: Ovid, Death and Transfiguration Part 1 Death and the Lover 1 Death, Lament, and “Elegiac Aetiology” in Ovid’s Metamorphoses Anke Walter 2 Duo moriemur: Death and Doubling in Ovid’s Metamorphoses Florence Klein 3 Ovid’s Artistic Transfiguration, Procris and Cephalus Thea Thorsen 4 Suicides for Love, Phyllis, Dido, Pyramus and Thisbe: Critical Variations on a Famous Motif of Erotic Poetry? Jacqueline Fabre-Serris 5 Ovidian Pathology, in Love and in Exile Laurel Fulkerson Part 2 Death and the Artist 6 Frigid Landscapes and Literary Frigidity in Ovid’s Exile Poetry A.M. Keith 7 Fantasies of Death in Ovid’s Poetry of Exile Luigi Galasso 8 Seeing and Knowing in Roman Painting Bettina Bergmann 9 The Niobids and the Augustan Age: On Some Recent Discoveries at Ciampino (Rome) Alessandro Betori and Elena Calandra Part 3 Revenants and Undead 10 Ambobus pellite regnis: Between Life and Death in Ovid’s Metamorphoses Alison Sharrock 11 Ovid’s Exile Poetry and Zombies Stephen Hinds 12 C.H. Sisson’s Metamorphoses and the “New Age of Ovid” Francesco Ursini 13 Reviving the Dead: Ovid in Early Modern England Emma Buckley Part 4 Immortals and Others 14 From Chaos to Chaos: Janus in Fasti 1 and the Gates of War Francesca Romana Berno 15 Intertextuality, Parody, and Immortality of Poetry: Petronius and Ovid Giuseppe La Bua 16 Tod und Erklärung: Ovid on the Death of Julius Caesar (Met. 15.745–851) Katharina Volk 17 The Books of Fate: The Venus-Jupiter Scene in Ovid’s Metamorphoses 15 and Its Epic Models Sergio Casali 18 Apotheoses of the Poet Philip Hardie Index
