Oxford Readings in Ovid

by Knox, Peter E.

• ISBN13: 9780199281152
• ISBN10: 0199281157
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2007-03-01
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

No other ancient poet has had such a hold on the imagination of readers as Ovid. Through the centuries, artists, writers, and poets have found in his work inspiration for new creative endeavors. This anthology of twenty of the most influential papers published in the last thirty years represents the broad range of critical and scholarly approaches to Ovid's work. The entire range of his poetry, from the Amores to the Epistles from the Black Sea, is discussed by some of the leading scholars of Latin poetry, employing, critical methods ranging from philology to contemporary literary theory. In an introductory essay, Peter Knox surveys Ovidian scholarship over this period and locates the assembled papers within recent critical trends. Taken together, the articles in this collection offer the interested reader, whether experienced scholar or novice, an entree into the current critical discourse on Ovid, who is at once one of the most accessible authors of classical antiquity and one of the least understood.

Author Biography

Peter E. Knox is Professor of Classics, University of Colorado.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Horizons in Ovidian Scholarship

Contexts and Intertexts

Generalizing about Ovid

Playing with his Life: Ovid's Autobiographical References

The Epistolary Mode and the First of Ovid's Heroides

Ovidian Allusion and the Vocabulary of Memory

Vergil's Best Reader? Ovidian Commentary on Vergilian Etymological Wordplay

Lucretius and the Delusions of Narcissus

Other Voices in Ovid's `Aeneid'

Ideologies of Love and Poetry

Reading Female Flesh: Amores 3.1

The Death of Corinna's Parrot Reconsidered: Poetry and Ovid's Amores

Fantasy, Myth, and Love Letters: Text and Tale in Ovid's Heroides

Ovid and the Politics of Reading

Narrators and Narratives

Ovidius Prooemians

Voices and Narrative `Instances' in the Metamorphoses

Pyramus and Thisbe in Cyprus

Form in Motion: Weaving the Text in the Metamorphoses

Ovid's Narrator in the Fasti

On the Margins of Empire

Ovid, Germanicus, and the Composition of the Fasti

Booking the Return Trip

On Ovid's Ibis: A Poem in Context

Si licet et fas est: Ovid's Fasti and the Problem of Free Speech under the Principate

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