A Companion to Ovid [Paperback]

• Features more than 30 newly commissioned chapters by noted scholars writing in their areas of specialization
• Illuminates various aspects of Ovid's work, such as production, genre, and style
• 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
• Provides a chronology of key literary and historical events during Ovid's lifetime

Notes on Contributors ix

Preface xiv

List of Abbreviations xv

Chronological Table xvii

Part I Contexts 1

1. A Poet’s Life 3
Peter E. Knox

2. Poetry in Augustan Rome 8
Mario Citroni

3. Rhetoric and Ovid’s Poetry 26
Elaine Fantham

4. Ovid and Religion 45
Julia Dyson Hejduk

Part II Texts 59

5. The Amores: Ovid Making Love 61
Joan Booth

6. The Heroides: Female Elegy? 78
Laurel Fulkerson

7. The Ars Amatoria 90
Roy K. Gibson

8. Remedia Amoris 104
Barbara Weiden Boyd

9. Fasti: The Poet, The Prince, and the Plebs 120
Geraldine Herbert-Brown

10. The Metamorphoses: A Poet’s Poem 140
E. J. Kenney