Oxford Readings in Ovid

by Peter E. Knox

Overview

No other ancient poet has had such a hold on the imagination of readers as Ovid. Through the centuries, artists, writers, and poets have found in his work inspiration for new creative endeavors. This anthology of twenty of the most influential papers published in the last thirty years represents the broad range of critical and scholarly approaches to Ovid's work. The entire range of his poetry, from the Amores to the Epistles from the Black Sea, is discussed by some of the leading scholars of Latin poetry, employing, critical methods ranging from philology to contemporary literary theory. In an introductory essay, Peter Knox surveys Ovidian scholarship over this period and locates the assembled papers within recent critical trends. Taken together, the articles in this collection offer the interested reader, whether experienced scholar or novice, an entrée into the current critical discourse on Ovid, who is at once one of the most accessible authors of classical antiquity and one of the least understood.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780199281152
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	03/01/2007
Series:	Oxford Readings in Classical Studies
Pages:	552
Product dimensions:	8.52(w) x 7.51(h) x 1.40(d)

About the Author

Peter E. Knox is Professor of Classics, University of Colorado.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Horizons in Ovidian Scholarship, Peter E. KnoxContexts and Intertexts1. Generalizing about Ovid, Stephen Hinds2. Playing with his Life: Ovid's Autobiographical References, Niklas Holzberg3. The Epistolary Mode and the First of Ovid's Heroides, Duncan F. Kennedy4. Ovidian Allusion and the Vocabulary of Memory, John F. Miller5. Vergil's Best Reader? Ovidian Commentary on Vergilian Etymological Wordplay, James J. O'Hara6. Lucretius and the Delusions of Narcissus, Philip Hardie7. Other Voices in Ovid's ‘Aeneid', Sergio CasaliIdeologies of Love and Poetry8. Reading Female Flesh: Amores 3.1, Maria Wyke9. The Death of Corinna's Parrot Reconsidered: Poetry and Ovid's Amores, Barbara Weiden Boyd10. Fantasy, Myth, and Love Letters: Text and Tale in Ovid's Heroides, R. Alden Smith11. Ovid and the Politics of Reading, Alison R. SharrockNarrators and Narratives12. Ovidius Prooemians, E. J. Kenney13. Voices and Narrative ‘Instances' in the Metamorphoses, Alessandro Barchiesi14. Pyramus and Thisbe in Cyprus, Peter E. Knox15. Form in Motion: Weaving the Text in the Metamorphoses, Gianpiero Rosati16. Ovid's Narrator in the Fasti, Carole NewlandsOn the Margins of Empire17. Ovid, Germanicus, and the Composition of the Fasti, Elaine Fantham18. Booking the Return Trip, Stephen Hinds19. On Ovid's Ibis: A Poem in Context, Gareth D. Williams20. Si licet et fas est: Ovid's Fasti and the Problem of Free Speech under the Principate, Denis Feeney