A companion to Ovid
By: edited by Peter E. Knox.
Contributors: Knox, Peter E.
Series: Blackwell companions to the ancient world
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell; Wiley-Interscience
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Malden, MA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 552
ISBN-13: 9781405141833
Subjects: Ovid, -- 43 B.C.-17 or 18 A.D. -- Criticism and interpretation; Epistolary poetry, Latin -- History and criticism; Didactic poetry, Latin -- History and criticism; Elegiac poetry, Latin -- History and criticism; Mythology, Classical, in literature; Love in literature; Rome -- In literature
Description: This companion to Ovid features more than 30 newly commissioned essays dealing with such topics as production, genre, and style. It 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: A poet's life / Peter E. Knox; title: Poetry in Augustan Rome / Mario Citroni; title: Rhetoric and Ovid's poetry / Elaine Fantham; title: Ovid and religion / Julia Dyson Hejduk; title: The amores : Ovid making love / Joan Booth; title: The heroides : female elegy? / Laurel Fulkerson; title: The Ars amatoria / Roy K. Gibson; title: Remedia amoris / Barbara Weiden Boyd; title: Fasti : the poet, the prince, and the plebs / Geraldine Herbert-Brown; title: The metamorphoses : a poet's poem / E. J. Kenney; title: The metamorphoses : politics and narrative / Gareth Williams; title: Tristia / Jo-Marie Claassen; title: Ibis / Martin Helzle; title: Epistulae ex Ponto / Luigi Galasso; title: Lost and spurious works / Peter E. Knox; title: Ovid and Hellenistic poetry / Jane Lightfoot; title: Ovid and Callimachus : rewriting the master / Benjamin Acosta-Hughes; title: Ovid's Catullus and the neoteric moment in Roman poetry / David Wray; title: Propertius and Ovid / Stephen Heyworth; title: Tibullus and Ovid / Robert Maltby; title: Ovid's reception of Virgil / Richard Thomas; title: Editing ovid : immortal works and material texts / Mark Possanza; title: Commenting on Ovid / Peter E. Knox; title: Ovidian intertextuality / Sergio Casali; title: Sexuality and gender / Alison Keith; title: Ovid's generic transformations / Joseph Farrell; title: Theorizing Ovid / Efrossini Spentzou; title: Ovidian strategies in early Imperial literature / Charles McNelis; title: The medieval Ovid / John Fyler; title: Ovid in Renaissance English literature / Heather James; title: Shakespeare and ovid / Gordon Braden; title: Ovid in the twentieth century / Theodore Ziolkowski; title: Translating Ovid / Christopher Martin.