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A companion to Ovid

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...

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Corporate Authors: Wiley InterScience (Online service)
Group Author: Knox, Peter E.
Published:
Literature type: Electronic eBook
Language: English
Series: Blackwell companions to the ancient world. [Literature and culture]
Subjects:
Ovid, > 43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D. > Criticism and interpretation.
Ovid, > 43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D.
Ovid, > 43 B.C.-17 or 18 A.D.
Ovidius Naso, Publius, > approximately v43 - 18
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.
Didactic poetry, Latin.
Elegiac poetry, Latin.
Epistolary poetry, Latin.
Literature.
POETRY > Ancient, Classical & Medieval.
Rome > In literature.
Rome (Empire)
Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Online Access: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/book/10.1002/9781444310627
Summary: 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.
Carrier Form: xviii, 534 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm.
Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references (pages 485-515) and index.
ISBN: 9781444310627
1444310623
9781405141833 (print copy)
1405141832 (print copy)
9781444310610 (electronic bk.)
1444310615 (electronic bk.)
9781405184885
1405184884
Index Number: PA6537
CLC: I546.072
Contents: A poet's life / Peter E. Knox -- Poetry in Augustan Rome / Mario Citroni -- Rhetoric and Ovid's poetry / Elaine Fantham -- Ovid and religion / Julia Dyson Hejduk -- The amores : Ovid making love / Joan Booth -- The heroides : female elegy? / Laurel Fulkerson -- The Ars amatoria / Roy K. Gibson -- Remedia amoris / Barbara Weiden Boyd -- Fasti : the poet, the prince, and the plebs / Geraldine Herbert-Brown -- The metamorphoses : a poet's poem / E.J. Kenney -- The metamorphoses : politics and narrative / Gareth Williams -- Tristia / Jo-Marie Claassen -- Ibis / Martin Helzle -- Epistulae ex Ponto / Luigi Galasso -- Lost and spurious works / Peter E. Knox -- Ovid and Hellenistic poetry / Jane Lightfoot -- Ovid and Callimachus : rewriting the master / Benjamin Acosta-Hughes -- Ovid's Catullus and the neoteric moment in Roman poetry / David Wray -- Propertius and Ovid / Stephen Heyworth -- Tibullus and Ovid / Robert Maltby -- Ovid's reception of Virgil / Richard Thomas -- Editing ovid : immortal works and material texts / Mark Possanza -- Commenting on Ovid / Peter E. Knox -- Ovidian intertextuality / Sergio Casali -- Sexuality and gender / Alison Keith -- Ovid's generic transformations / Joseph Farrell -- Theorizing Ovid / Efrossini Spentzou -- Ovidian strategies in early Imperial literature / Charles McNelis -- The medieval Ovid / John Fyler -- Ovid in Renaissance English literature / Heather James -- Shakespeare and ovid / Gordon Braden -- Ovid in the twentieth century / Theodore Ziolkowski -- Translating Ovid / Christopher Martin.

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