Brill's companion to Ovid / edited by Barbara Weiden Boyd.
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...
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| Year of Publication: | 2002 |
| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Brill's Companions to Classical Studies.
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (550 p.) |
| Notes: | Description based upon print version of record. |
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Table of 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