Oxford Readings in Ovid [Hardcover]

No other ancient poet has had such a hold on the imagination of readers as Ovid. Through the centuries, artists, writers, and poets have found in his work inspiration for new creative endeavors. This anthology of twenty of the most influential papers published in the last thirty years represents the broad range of critical and scholarly approaches to Ovid's work. The entire range of his poetry, from theAmoresto the Epistles from the Black Sea, is discussed by some of the leading scholars of Latin poetry, employing, critical methods ranging from philology to contemporary literary theory. In an introductory essay, Peter Knox surveys Ovidian scholarship over this period and locates the assembled papers within recent critical trends. Taken together, the articles in this collection offer the interested reader, whether experienced scholar or novice, an entr?e into the current critical discourse on Ovid, who is at once one of the most accessible authors of classical antiquity and one of the least understood.

Introduction: Horizons in Ovidian Scholarship,Peter E. Knox
Contexts and Intertexts
1. Generalizing about Ovid,Stephen Hinds
2. Playing with his Life: Ovid's Autobiographical References,Niklas Holzberg
3. The Epistolary Mode and the First of Ovid's Heroides,Duncan F. Kennedy
4. Ovidian Allusion and the Vocabulary of Memory,John F. Miller
5. Vergil's Best Reader? Ovidian Commentary on Vergilian Etymological Wordplay,James J. O'Hara
6. Lucretius and the Delusions of Narcissus,Philip Hardie
7. Other Voices in Ovid's `Aeneid',Sergio Casali
Ideologies of Love and Poetry
8. Reading Female Flesh: Amores 3.1,Maria Wyke
9. The Death of Corinna's Parrot Reconsidered: Poetry and Ovid's Amores,Barbara Weiden Boyd
10. Fantasy, Myth, and Love Letters: Text and Tale in Ovid's Heroides,R. Alden Smith