Companion to Ovid

Name: Companion to Ovid
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ISBN: 9781118451342

ISBN-10: 1118451341

ISBN-13: 9781118451342

Edition: 2012

Authors: Peter E. Knox

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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

Book details

List price: $74.95
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated
Publication date: 12/7/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 560
Size: 6.80" wide x 9.75" long x 1.02" tall
Weight: 1.826
Language: English



List of Figures


Notes on Contributors


Preface


List of Abbreviations


Chronological Table



Contexts



A Poet's Life




Poetry in Augustan Rome




Rhetoric and Ovid's Poetry




Ovid and Religion




Texts



The Amores: Ovid Making Love




The Heroides: Female Elegy?




The Ars Amatoria




Remedia Amoris




Fasti: The Poet, The Prince, and the Plebs




The Metamorphoses: A Poet's Poem




The Metamorphoses: Politics and Narrative




Tristia




Ibis




Epistulae ex Ponto




Lost and Spurious Works




Intertexts



Ovid and Hellenistic Poetry




Ovid and Callimachus: Rewriting the Master




Ovid's Catullus and the Neoteric Moment in Roman Poetry




Propertius and Ovid




Tibullus and Ovid




Ovid's Reception of Virgil




Critical and Scholarly Approaches



Editing Ovid: Immortal Works and Material Texts




Commenting on Ovid




Ovidian Intertextuality




Sexuality and Gender




Ovid's Generic Transformations




Theorizing Ovid




Literary Receptions



Ovidian Strategies in Early Imperial Literature




The Medieval Ovid




Ovid in Renaissance English Literature




Ovid and Shakespeare




Ovid in the Twentieth Century




Translating Ovid



Bibliography


Index