The Cambridge Companion to Ovid

Accessible but exciting critical handbook on one of the greatest writers of classical antiquity.

Philip Hardie (Edited by)

9780521772815, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 4 April 2002

428 pages, 18 b/w illus.
23.5 x 15.7 x 3.3 cm, 0.778 kg

'The Cambridge Companion to Ovid succeeds from the point of view both of editorial design and of the quality of the individual contributions. The result is a collection that both beginners and old hands will find informative and stimulating, and I can recommend it with enthusiasm to readers of both kinds.' BMCR

Ovid was one of the greatest writers of classical antiquity, and arguably the single most influential ancient poet for post-classical literature and culture. In this Cambridge Companion, chapters by leading authorities from Europe and North America discuss the backgrounds and contexts for Ovid, the individual works, and his influence on later literature and art. Coverage of essential information is combined with exciting critical approaches. This Companion is designed both as an accessible handbook for the general reader who wishes to learn about Ovid, and as a series of stimulating essays for students of Latin poetry and of the classical tradition.

List of illustrations
List of contributors
Preface
Introduction Philip Hardie
Part I. Contexts and History: 1. Ovid and ancient literary history Richard Tarrant
2. Ovid and early imperial literature Philip Hardie
3. Ovid and empire Thomas Habinek
4. Ovid and the professional discourses of scholarship, religion, rhetoric Alessandro Schiesaro
Part II. Themes and Works: 5. Ovid and genre: evolutions of an elegist Stephen Harrison
6. Gender and sexuality Alison Sharrock
7. Myth in Ovid Fritz Graf
8. Landscape with figures: aesthetics of place in the Metamorphoses and its tradition Stephen Hinds
9. Ovid and the discourses of love: the amatory works Alison Sharrock
10. Metamorphosis in the Metamorphoses Andrew Feldherr
11. Narrative technique and narratology in the Metamorphoses Alessandro Barchiesi
12. Mandati memores: political and poetic authority in the Fasti Carole Newlands
13. Epistolarity: the Heroides Duncan F. Kennedy
14. Ovid's exile poetry: Tristia, Epistulae ex Ponto and Ibis Gareth Williams
Part III. Reception: 15. Ovid in English translation Raphael Lyne
16. Ovid in the Middle Ages: authority and poetry Jeremy Dimmick
17. Love and exile after Ovid Raphael Lyne
18. Re-embodying Ovid: Renaissance afterlives Colin Burrow
19. Recent receptions of Ovid Duncan F. Kennedy
20. Ovid and art Christopher Allen
Dateline
Works cited
Index.

Subject Areas: Literary studies: poetry & poets [DSC], Literary studies: classical, early & medieval [DSBB], Literature: history & criticism [DS]