Bloomsbury Academic, 2015. — 192 p. Ovid devoted about half of his poetic career to the production of several collections of amatory verse, all composed in elegiac couplets. Indeed, his irrepressible interest in love, sex, and elegiac poetry is one of the defining features of his entire output. Here Rebecca Armstrong offers a thematic examination of some important aspects of...
Oxford University Press, 2004. — 192 p. — (Oxford approaches to classical literature). — ISBN: 9780195154108. Ovid's Metamorphoses have been seen as both the culmination of and a revolution in the classical epic tradition, transferring narrative interest from war to love and fantasy. This introduction considers how Ovid found and shaped his narrative from the creation of the...
Collection of Articles. — Leiden: Brill, 2023. — 445 p. 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 career and his posthumous reception, revealing a unity in diversity that has not been appreciated in these terms before now.
New York: Cambridge University Press, 2005. – 187 p. Ovid's Heroides, a catalogue of letters by women who have been deserted, has too frequently been examined as merely a lament. In a new departure, this book portrays the women of the Heroides as a community of authors. Combining close readings of the texts and their mythological backgrounds with critical methods, the book...
University of Wisconsin Press, 2008. - 200 p. - (Wisconsin Studies in Classics). The epic Metamorphoses, Ovid’s most renowned work, has regained its stature among the masterpieces of great poets such as Vergil, Horace, and Tibullus. Yet its irreverent tone and bold defiance of generic boundaries set the Metamorphoses apart from its contemporaries. Ovid before Exile provides a...
De Gruyter, 2017. — viii, 382 p. — (Trends in Classics - Supplementary Volumes, 42). — ISBN: 3-11-0490-28-5, 978-3-11-049028-2, 978-3-11-048661-2, 978-3-11-048865-4. Conceived as a necessary reconsideration of the pristine elegiac question in Ovid's Metamorphoses, this book intends to offer an analysis of the function of elegiac discourse within Ovid's magnum opus from the...
Brill Academic Pub, 2009. — 261 p. After being banished to the Black Sea by the Roman emperor Augustus in 8 AD, Ovid responded in verse by composing the "Tristia and Epistulae ex Ponto". Here the poet establishes for himself a place of intellectual refuge, where he can reflect out loud on how and why his own art has been legally banned and left for dead on the margins of the...
Wiley-Blackwell, 2014. — 520 p. A Handbook to the Reception of Ovid presents more than 30 original essays written by leading scholars revealing the rich diversity of critical engagement with Ovid’s poetry that spans the Western tradition from antiquity to the present day. Offers innovative perspectives on Ovid’s poetry and its reception from antiquity to the present dayFeatures...
Narr Francke Attempto Verlag, 2022. — 290 p. — (Classica Monacensia 58). Ovids Remedia amoris zeichnen sich durch die produktive Rezeption paradigmatischer Intertexte und literarischer Gattungen (Lehrgedicht, Satire, Jambus) aus. Die Autorin zeigt, wie intertextuell-parodistisch auf Lukrez' Diatribe gegen die Liebesleidenschaft in De rerum natura 4, Horaz' Satiren und Epoden...
University of Wisconsin Press, 2009. - 215 p. - (Wisconsin Studies in Classics). Barbara Pavlock unmasks major figures in Ovid’s Metamorphoses as surrogates for his narrative persona, highlighting the conflicted revisionist nature of the Metamorphoses. Although Ovid ostensibly validates traditional customs and institutions, instability is in fact a defining feature of both the...
Oxford University Press, 2021. — 208 p. A new translation into English of Rosati's influential 1983 study. Includes a substantive introduction that relates the book to recent discussions of Ovidian aesthetics and intermediality. Explores the origins of a critical debate ranging from the ancient world to contemporary critical theory. Nature imitates art - not a paradox from...
Clarendon Press, 1978. — 240 p. This brief and compressed study comprises twelve self-contained chapters and begins by proposing a revised chronology for several works of Ovid. The central theme is Roman social history in the time of Caesar Augustus, revealing Ovid in his milieu and the ambit of his friendships. Attention is concentrated on the poems from exile, especially the...
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014. – 223 p. This book represents the most comprehensive study to date of Ovid’s early output as a unified literary production. First, the book proposes new ways of organising this part of his poetic career, the chronology of which is notoriously difficult to establish. Next, by combining textual criticism with issues relating to...
Oxford University Press, 2021. — 448 p. In classical scholarship, the presence of legal language in love poetry is commonly interpreted as absurd and incongruous. Ovid's legalisms have been described as frivolous, humorous, and ornamental. Law and Love in Ovid challenges this widespread, but ill-informed view. Legal discourse in Latin love poetry is not incidental, but...
Cambridge University Press, 2013. — 260 p. The influence of Ovid of Hesiod, the most important archaic Greek poet after Homer, has been underestimated. Yet, as this book shows, a profound engagement with Hesiod's themes is central to Ovid's poetic world. As a poet who praised women instead of men and opted for stylistic delicacy instead of epic grandeur, Hesiod is always...
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