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Fasti
Ovid2, 3, 4, and 7 on Ovid. Barbara Weiden Boyd, 'Celabitur auctor: The Crisis of Authority and Narrative Patterning in Ovid Fasti 5', Phoenix, 54 (2000), 64–98. Emma Gee, Ovid, Aratus and Augustus: Astronomy in Ovid's Fasti (Cambridge: CUP, ...
The Metamorphoses of Ovid
OvidFirst published in 8 A.D. when he was 52, Ovid's epic poem contains profoundly entertaining tales of Adonis, Midas, Apollo, Icarus, and many others. (Poetry)
Ovid's Metamorphoses
OvidAnd Anderson’s skillful introduction and enlightening textual commentary will indeed make it a joy to use. In these books Ovid begins to leave the conflict between men and the gods to concentrate on the relations among human beings.
Ovid's Metamorphoses
Elaine FanthamThis introduction to Ovid's Metamorphoses considers how Ovid defined and shaped his narrative, its cultural context, and its vivid depictions of the cruelty of jealous gods, the pathos of human love, and the imaginative fantasy of flight, ...
Ovid in the Age of Cervantes
Frederick A. De ArmasThe final section of the book centers on questions of poetic fame and self-fashioning. Ovid in the Age of Cervantes is an important and comprehensive re-evaluation of Ovid's impact on Renaissance and Early Modern Spain.
Ovid: Ars Amatoria
OvidOvid, Roy K. Gibson. PUBLISHED BY THE PRESS SYNDICATE OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE The Pitt Building, Tn1mpington Street, Cambridge CB2 1Rp, United Kingdom CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS The Edinburgh Building ...
Love and its Critics: From the Song of Songs to Shakespeare ...
Michael BrysonSeduction and Repetition in Ovid's Ars Amatoria, 2 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1994), 296. 83 Barbara Weiden Boyd. “The Amores: The Invention of Ovid”. In Brill's Companion to Ovid, ed. by Barbara Weiden Boyd (Leiden: Brill, 2002), 116.
Ovid in the Middle Ages
James G. ClarkThis book explores the extraordinary influence of Ovid upon the culture - learned, literary, artistic and popular - of medieval Europe.
The Metamorphoses
OvidRetold with Ovid’s irreverent flair, these tales are united by the theme of metamorphosis, as men and women are rendered alien to themselves, turned variously to flowers, trees, animals, and stones.
Brill's Companion to Ovid
More editionsThis collection of essays on Ovid's life, works, and influence is intended to serve as a vade-mecum for all interested in the Roman world's most versatile literary genius.
Ovid's Metamorphoses
OvidThis volume provides the Latin text of the first five books of the poem and the most detailed commentary available in English of these books.
Ovid's Poetics of Illusion
Philip HardieA comprehensive treatment of the ways in which Ovid exploits illusion in his poetry.
Ovid's Metamorphoses: The Arthur Golding Translation, 1567
Ovid"The most beautiful book in the English language." -- Ezra Pound
Fasti
OvidBook IV of Ovid's celebration of the calendar and the associated legends of the Roman year treats the month of April, a particularly happy phase of the Augustan ceremonial year.
Metamorphosis
Ovid,Ovid's deliciously witty and exuberant epic starts with the creation of the world and brings together a series of ingeniously linked Greek and Roman myths and legends in which men and women are transformed, often by love - into flowers, ...
Rhetoric, Hermeneutics, and Translation in the Middle Ages: ...
Rita CopelandIn this case the relationship between Ovid's aetas aurea and the Ovide moralise would be mediated by multiple layers of a vernacular tradition deriving from Boethius and only indirectly from Ovid. But it is probably more likely that, like many ...
The Metamorphoses of Ovid
PreviewComposed in Latin in the early years of the 1st century by the Roman poet Ovid, the Metamorphoses presents a collection of tales of transformation based on Greek mythology and legend.
Metamorphoses
OvidOvid's Metamorphoses gains its ideal twenty-first-century herald in Stanley Lombardo's bracing translation of a wellspring of Western art and literature that is too often treated, even by poets, as a mere vehicle for the scores of myths it ...
The Metamorphoses
OvidBringing together a series of ingeniously linked myths and legends, Ovid's deliciously witty and poignant Metamorphoses describes a magical world in which men and women are transformed - often by love - into flowers, trees, animals, stones ...
Tales from Ovid
Ted HughesTales from Ovid, which went on to win the Whitbread Prize for Poetry, continued the project of recreation with 24 passages, including the stories of Phaeton, Actaeon, Echo and Narcissus, Procne, Midas and Pyramus and Thisbe.
The Elegiae in Maecenatem
OvidOvid Mary Cecilia Miller. THE ELEGIAE IN MAECENATEM WITH INTRODUCTION, TEXT, TRANSLATION AND COMMENTARY A DISSERTATION IN LATIN PRESENTED TO THE FACULTY OF THE GRADUATE SCHOOL IN PARTIAL ...
Enjoinder and Argument in Ovid's Remedia Amoris
David A. JonesThis slim study investigates the precise nature of Ovid's didactic poetry in the Remedia Amoris , as displayed in his exhortations, commands, advice and arguments.
The Rhetoric of the Body from Ovid to Shakespeare
Lynn EnterlineThis persuasive book analyses the complex, often violent connections between body and voice in Ovid's Metamorphoses and narrative, lyric and dramatic works by Petrarch, Marston and Shakespeare.
Gendered Dynamics in Latin Love Poetry
Ronnie AnconaI Silenced Subjects Ovid and the Heroines in Exile Efrossini Spentzou Silence and the Self Already three years in exile, Ovid opened his fifth and last book of the Tristia with an address to "his devoted reader" (nostri studiose, 1) that draws a ...
Ovid in Exile: Power and Poetic Redress in the Tristia and ...
PreviewIn response to being exiled to the Black Sea by the Roman emperor Augustus in 8 AD, Ovid began to compose the "Tristia" and "Epistulae ex Ponto" and to create for himself a place of intellectual refuge.
The Text, the Play, and the Globe: Essays on Literary ...
PreviewEssays on Literary Influence in Shakespeare's World and His Work in Honor of Charles R. Forker Joseph Candido. Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso). Ovid in Six Volumes, Vol. 1 (Heroides and Amores). Translated by Grant Showerman; 2nd edition ...
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