Helena Taylor explores responses to the life of the ancient Roman poet, Ovid, within the charged atmosphere of seventeenth-century France. She investigates how the figure of Ovid was used to debate literary taste and modernity, and in doing so offers a fresh perspective on classical reception: its paradoxes, uses, and quarrels.
Helena Taylor explores responses to the life of the ancient Roman poet, Ovid, within the charged atmosphere of seventeenth-century France. She investigates how the figure of Ovid was used to debate literary taste and modernity, and in doing so offers a fresh perspective on classical reception: its paradoxes, uses, and quarrels.
Helena Taylor is a Lecturer in French Studies at the University of Exeter. She completed her DPhil at the University of Oxford, where she then held a Queen's College Laming Junior Fellowship. Her research focuses on seventeenth-century French culture, with an interest in women's writing, early modern quarrels, and classical reception.
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Introduction 1: Lives after Life 2: Translating Ovid 3: Ovid in Fiction 4: The Exile Writes Back 5: Ovid and Historiography Conclusion Bibliography