Brill's companion to Ovid / edited by Barbara Weiden Boyd.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Boyd, Barbara Weiden, 1952-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ovid, 43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D--Criticism and interpretation.

Ovid.

Ovid, 43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D.

Criticism and interpretation.

Physical Description:

xiii, 533 pages ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2002.

Summary:

This collection of essays on Ovid's life, works, and influence is intended to serve as a vade-mecum for all interested in the Roman world's most versatile literary genius. The broad range of subjects and perspectives represented by the Companion's fourteen contributors offers readers the best in contemporary classical scholarship.

Contents:

Ovid and the Augustan milieu / Peter White

Ovid's language and style / E.J. Kenney

The Amores: the invention of Ovid / Barbara Weiden Boyd

The Heroides: elegiac voices / Peter E. Knox

Praecepta amoris: Ovid's didactic elegy / Patricia Watson

The Fasti: style, structure, and time / John F. Miller

Ovid's Fasti: politics, history, and religion / Elaine Fantham

Sources and genres in Ovid's Metamorphoses 1-5 / Alison Keith

Narrative techniques and narrative structures in the Metamorphoses / Gianpiero Rosati

The house of fame: Roman history and Augustan politics in Metamorphoses 11-15 / Garth Tissol

Ovid's exilic poetry: worlds apart / Gareth Williams

Siquid habent ueri uatum praesagia: Ovid in the 1st-5th centuries A.D. / Michael Dewar

Ovid in the Middle Ages: exile, mythographer, lover / Ralph Hexter

Manuscript traditions and the transmission of Ovid's works / John Richmond

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 485-512) and indexes.

ISBN:

9004121560

OCLC:

50583349