Bültmann & Gerriets
A Companion to Ovid
von Peter E. Knox
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Reihe: Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World
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ISBN: 978-1-4443-1061-0
Auflage: 1. Auflage
Erschienen am 29.04.2009
Sprache: Englisch

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Inhaltsverzeichnis

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


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