Research Catalog

Title

A companion to Ovid / edited by Peter E. Knox.

Publication

Chichester, West Sussex, United Kingdom ; Malden, MA : Wiley-Blackwell, 2009.

Supplementary Content

20090326053243

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Additional Authors

Knox, Peter E.

Description

xviii, 534 pages : illustrations; 26 cm.

Summary

This companion to Ovid features more than 30 newly commissioned essays dealing with such topics as production, genre, and style. It presents interpretive essays on key poems and collections of poems, includes detailed discussions of Ovid's primary literary influences and his reception in English literature.

Series Statement

Blackwell companions to the ancient world. [Literature and culture]

Uniform Title

Blackwell companions to the ancient world. Literature and culture.

Alternative Title

Ovid

Subjects

• Epistolary poetry, Latin
• Didactic poetry, Latin
• Elegiac poetry, Latin
• Epistolary poetry, Latin > History and criticism
• Didactic poetry, Latin > History and criticism
• Love in literature
• Rome (Empire)
• Mythology, Classical, in literature
• Criticism, interpretation, etc
• Literature
• Gedichten
• Elegiac poetry, Latin > History and criticism
• Aufsatzsammlung
• Ovidius Naso, Publius
• Rome > In literature
• Ovid, 43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D > Criticism and interpretation

Genre/Form

• Aufsatzsammlung.
• Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 485-515) and index.

Contents

A poet's life / Peter E. Knox -- Poetry in Augustan Rome / Mario Citroni -- Rhetoric and Ovid's poetry / Elaine Fantham -- Ovid and religion / Julia Dyson Hejduk -- The amores : Ovid making love / Joan Booth -- The heroides : female elegy? / Laurel Fulkerson -- The Ars amatoria / Roy K. Gibson -- Remedia amoris / Barbara Weiden Boyd -- Fasti : the poet, the prince, and the plebs / Geraldine Herbert-Brown -- The metamorphoses : a poet's poem / E.J. Kenney -- The metamorphoses : politics and narrative / Gareth Williams -- Tristia / Jo-Marie Claassen -- Ibis / Martin Helzle -- Epistulae ex Ponto / Luigi Galasso -- Lost and spurious works / Peter E. Knox -- Ovid and Hellenistic poetry / Jane Lightfoot -- Ovid and Callimachus : rewriting the master / Benjamin Acosta-Hughes -- Ovid's Catullus and the neoteric moment in Roman poetry / David Wray -- Propertius and Ovid / Stephen Heyworth -- Tibullus and Ovid / Robert Maltby -- Ovid's reception of Virgil / Richard Thomas -- Editing ovid : immortal works and material texts / Mark Possanza -- Commenting on Ovid / Peter E. Knox -- Ovidian intertextuality / Sergio Casali -- Sexuality and gender / Alison Keith -- Ovid's generic transformations / Joseph Farrell -- Theorizing Ovid / Efrossini Spentzou -- Ovidian strategies in early Imperial literature / Charles McNelis -- The medieval Ovid / John Fyler -- Ovid in Renaissance English literature / Heather James -- Shakespeare and ovid / Gordon Braden -- Ovid in the twentieth century / Theodore Ziolkowski -- Translating Ovid / Christopher Martin.

Call Number

PA6537

ISBN

• 9781405141833 (hc : alk. paper)
• 9781118451342 (pbk.)
• 1118451341 (pbk.)
• 1405141832

LCCN

2008041557

OCLC

244766871

Title

A companion to Ovid / edited by Peter E. Knox.

Imprint

Chichester, West Sussex, United Kingdom ; Malden, MA : Wiley-Blackwell, 2009.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Blackwell companions to the ancient world. [Literature and culture]

Blackwell companions to the ancient world. Literature and culture.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 485-515) and index.

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Added Author

Knox, Peter E.

Research Call Number

*R-RMRR PA6537 .C57 2009