The Cambridge companion to Ovid / edited by Philip Hardie.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hardie, Philip R.

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Series:

Cambridge companions to literature

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Ovid.

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

Epistolary poetry, Latin--History and criticism--Handbooks, manuals, etc.

Epistolary poetry, Latin.

Didactic poetry, Latin--History and criticism--Handbooks, manuals, etc.

Didactic poetry, Latin.

Love poetry, Latin--History and criticism--Handbooks, manuals, etc.

Love poetry, Latin.

Mythology, Classical, in literature--Handbooks, manuals, etc.

Mythology, Classical, in literature.

Criticism and interpretation.

Genre:

Handbooks and manuals.

Physical Description:

xvi, 408 pages ; 23 cm.

Other Title:

Companion to Ovid

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2002.

Summary:

Accessible but excitingly new critical handbook to one of the greatest writers of classical antiquity.

Contents:

Part 1 Contexts and history

1 Ovid and ancient literary history / Richard Tarrant 13

2 Ovid and early imperial literature / Philip Hardie 34

3 Ovid and empire / Thomas Habinek 46

4 Ovid and the professional discourses of scholarship, religion, rhetoric / Alessandro Schiesaro 62

Part 2 Themes and works

5 Ovid and genre: evolutions of an elegist / Stephen Harrison 79

6 Gender and sexuality / Alison Sharrock 95

7 Myth in Ovid / Fritz Graf 108

8 Landscape with figures: aesthetics of place in the Metamorphoses and its tradition / Stephen Hinds 122

9 Ovid and the discourses of love: the amatory works / Alison Sharrock 150

10 Metamorphosis in the Metamorphoses / Andrew Feldherr 163

11 Narrative technique and narratology in the Metamorphoses / Alessandro Barchiesi 180

12 Mandati memores: political and poetic authority in the Fasti / Carole Newlands 200

13 Epistolarity: the Heroides / Duncan F. Kennedy 217

14 Ovid's exile poetry: Tristia, Epistulae ex Ponto and Ibis / Gareth Williams 233

Part 3 Reception

15 Ovid in English translation / Raphael Lyne 249

16 Ovid in the Middle Ages: authority and poetry / Jeremy Dimmick 264

17 Love and exile after Ovid / Raphael Lyne 288

18 Re-embodying Ovid: Renaissance afterlives / Colin Burrow 301

19 Recent receptions of Ovid / Duncan F. Kennedy 320

20 Ovid and art / Christopher Allen 336.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 371-398) and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.

ISBN:

0521772818

0521775280

OCLC:

47625308