Companion to Ovid

Herausgegeben von Knox, Peter E.

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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

Produktdetails

• Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World .
• Verlag: Wiley & Sons
• 1. Auflage
• Seitenzahl: 560
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. Dezember 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 244mm x 170mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 842g
• ISBN-13: 9781118451342
• ISBN-10: 1118451341
• Artikelnr.: 36875046

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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

Rezensionen

"The result is something quite extraordinary, a coherent and engaging treatment of the full corpus of Ovid's writing in just under 130 pages . . . V. has produced an eminently readable, highly engaging introduction to Ovid, one that speaks to exactly the audience she had envisaged, in a voice both accessible and smart." (The Classical Review, 1 October 2012) "Aimed at the general reading public and at newcomers to Ovid, her book is also a delight for experienced Ovidian scholars, providing an engaging, attractive, and thoughtful overview of the poet and his works that shows why his oeuvre remains intellectually valuable as well as an enjoyable read. Fluent and accessible, the volume covers a great deal of ground with lightness of foot. Volk takes a thematic approach that cuts across individual works in productive ways, but the simple titles of the chapters - 'Work', 'Life', 'Elegy', 'Myth', 'Art', 'Women', 'Rome', 'Reception' - do not adequately convey a sense of the treasures that lie within their pages." (Greece & Rome, 1 October 2012)