Ovid

by Liveley, Genevieve

• ISBN13: 9781853996702
• ISBN10: 185399670X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-10-28
• Publisher: Bristol Classical Pr

Summary

The most prolific of Roman poets, Ovid was born in 43 BC and died in exile on the Black Sea in 17 AD, banished by the Emperor Augustus. As well as his famous Metamorphoses (the subject of another book in this series) he produced a large body of elegiac poetry, the Amores, Ars Amatoria, Remedia Amoris, Heroides, Fasti, Tristia and Ex Ponto, all of which are accessibly discussed here in Genevieve Liveley's important re-evaluation of the poet's politics, poetics and erotics. She examines the impact on Ovid of Augustus' programmes for social and political reform, the role of genre, allusion and intertextuality in his writings, and the tensions underlying his representations of gender and sexuality. Finally she assesses responses to Ovid's elegiac works by later love poets and writers, and reflects on the continued relevance and readability of his work for a twenty-first century audience.

Author Biography

Genevieve Liveley is a teaching fellow at the University of Bristol

Table of Contents

Introduction	7	(18)
Loves	25	(16)
The Art of Love	41	(18)
The Heroines' Letters	59	(18)
The Calendar	77	(16)
Sad Songs	93	(20)
Ovid in the Third Millennium	113	(6)
Glossary	119	(6)
Note on Translations	125	(2)
Further Reading	127	(4)
Bibliography	131	(6)
Acknowledgements	137	(2)
Index	139