A Companion to Ovid

Peter E. Knox (Herausgeber)

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552 Seiten

2008
Wiley-Blackwell (an imprint of John Wiley & Sons Ltd) (Hersteller)
978-1-4051-8510-3 (ISBN)

Infos

This is the second of Companions (the first was Skinner's Catullus) devoted to high-profile authors on the classics list. The list will be limited to major figures such as Homer, Virgil, Horace, Sophocles Evidence for the contemporary surge of interest in Ovid's poetry is abundant: new books of criticism and new translations of his works proliferate on publishers' lists and bibliographies swell with articles of interpretation. The explosion of scholarly and critical activity in Ovidian studies over the last three decades reflects only one aspect of his continuing popularity. Ovid has always been favored by readers, who continue to devour his works, both in Latin and in very large numbers in translation. The success of Mary Zimmerman's Broadway production of Metamorphoses and Ted Hughes' Tales from Ovid are only two recent manifestations of the reception of Ovid in our art and literature.
In antiquity Ovid's works were not read in the schools; that is certainly not the case now, when the Metamorphoses is standard fare not only in the traditional classical curriculum, but in the now ubiquitous large lecture courses in translation and Ovid is a curricular option for Advanced Placement students in secondary school.

Autor

Peter E. Knox is Professor of Classics at the University of Colorado. His publications include Ovid's Metamorphoses and the Traditions of Augustan Poetry (1986) and Ovid, Heroides: Select Epistles (1995), as well as many articles on a wide range of topics in Greek and Roman literature.

Inhalt

List of Figures. Notes on Contributors. Preface. List of Abbreviations. Chronological Table. Part I Contexts. 1. A Poet's Life (Peter E. Knox). 2. Poetry in Augustan Rome (Mario Citroni). 3. Rhetoric and Ovid's Poetry (Elaine Fantham). 4. Ovid and Religion (Julia Dyson Hejduk). Part II Texts. 5. The Amores: Ovid Making Love (Joan Booth). 6. The Heroides: Female Elegy? (Laurel Fulkerson). 7. The Ars Amatoria (Roy K. Gibson). 8. Remedia Amoris (Barbara Weiden Boyd). 9. Fasti: The Poet, The Prince, and the Plebs (Geraldine Herbert-Brown). 10. The Metamorphoses: A Poet's Poem (E. J. Kenney). 11. The Metamorphoses: Politics and Narrative (Gareth D. Williams). 12. Tristia (Jo-Marie Claassen). 13. Ibis (Martin Helzle). 14. Epistulae ex Ponto (Luigi Galasso). 15. Lost and Spurious Works (Peter E. Knox). Part III Intertexts. 16. Ovid and Hellenistic Poetry (Jane L. Lightfoot). 17. Ovid and Callimachus: Rewriting the Master (Benjamin Acosta-Hughes). 18. Ovid's Catullus and the Neoteric Moment in Roman Poetry (David Wray). 19. Propertius and Ovid (S. J. Heyworth). 20. Tibullus and Ovid (Robert Maltby). 21. Ovid's Reception of Virgil (Richard F. Thomas). Part IV Critical and Scholarly Approaches. 22. Editing Ovid: Immortal Works and Material Texts (Mark Possanza). 23. Commenting on Ovid (Peter E. Knox). 24. Ovidian Intertextuality (Sergio Casali). 25. Sexuality and Gender (Alison Keith). 26. Ovid's Generic Transformations (Joseph Farrell). 27. Theorizing Ovid (Efrossini Spentzou). Part V Literary Receptions. 28. Ovidian Strategies in Early Imperial Literature (Charles McNelis). 29. The Medieval Ovid (John M. Fyler). 30. Ovid in Renaissance English Literature (Heather James). 31. Ovid and Shakespeare (Gordon Braden). 32. Ovid in the Twentieth Century (Theodore Ziolkowski). 33. Translating Ovid (Christopher Martin). Bibliography. Index.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 27.2.2008
• Reihe/Serie: Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World
• Verlagsort: Chicester
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 181 x 259 mm
• Gewicht: 1128 g
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
• ISBN-10: 1-4051-8510-4 / 1405185104
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4051-8510-3 / 9781405185103
• Zustand: Neuware