Thea S. Thorsen

Ovid's Early Poetry

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

An important new exploration of the early poetry of Ovid, one of the greatest poets in the Roman and Western tradition.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 236
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. August 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 500g
• ISBN-13: 9781107040410
• ISBN-10: 1107040418
• Artikelnr.: 41609631

Autorenporträt

Thea S. Thorsen is Associate Professor of Latin at the Department of Historical Studies: Classics at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology. She is the editor of The Cambridge Companion to Latin Love Elegy (Cambridge, 2013) and Greek and Roman Games in the Computer Age (2012) and co-editor, with Stephen Harrison, of Sappho at Rome: Receptions from Lucretius to Martial (forthcoming). She has published numerous articles on Greek and Roman poetry and prose, in Norwegian and in English, and she became the first person to have published translations of all of Ovid's love elegies into Norwegian verse (2001-9).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. Dating the young Ovid
2. Ovidian signatures and the single Heroides
3. The last of the great Roman poets - with the latest news
4. The authenticity of Heroides 15
5. Sappho among heroines
6. Sapphic self-reflections in Ovid's Amores
7. Art, being and nothingness in Ovid's Ars amatoria and Remedia amoris
8. The creation of a poet.