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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Boyd, Barbara Weiden, 1952-

Series:

Brill's Companions to Classical Studies.

Brill's Companions in Classical Studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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.

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

Ovid.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (550 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Companion to Ovid

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2002.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This volume on the Roman poet Ovid (43 BCE – 17 CE) comprises articles by an international group of fourteen scholars. Their contributions cover a wide range of topics, including a biographical essay, a survey of the major manuscripts and textual traditions, and a comprehensive discussion of Ovid’s style. The remaining chapters are devoted to focused studies of each of Ovid’s major works, with emphasis given where appropriate to the poet’s interest in genre and narrative techniques, his engagement with the poetry that preceded his oeuvre, his response to the political, religious, and social realities of Augustan Rome, and his enduring legacy in the European literary traditions of the first 1300 years after his death. Brill's Companion to Ovid combines close analysis of each of Ovid’s major works with a comprehensive overview of scholarly trends in the study of Latin poetry and Roman literary culture. It will be a valuable resource for students and scholars of Latin literature alike.

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:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [485]-512) and indexes.

ISBN:

1-280-46478-X

9786610464784

1-4175-3669-1

90-474-0095-X

OCLC:

232157165

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789047400950 DOI