Peter E. Knox
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 endeavours.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 the Amores to 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 entrée 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.
Peter E. Knox: Introduction: Horizons in Ovidian Scholarship
Contexts and Intertexts
1. Stephen Hinds: Generalizing about Ovid
2. Niklas Holzberg: Playing with his Life: Ovid's Autobiographical References
3. Duncan F. Kennedy: The Epistolary Mode and the First of Ovid's
Heroides
4. John F. Miller: Ovidian Allusion and the Vocabulary of Memory
5. James J. O'Hara: Vergil's Best Reader? Ovidian Commentary on Vergilian Etymological Wordplay
6. Philip Hardie: Lucretius and the Delusions of Narcissus
7. Sergio Casali: Other Voices in Ovid's
`Aeneid'
Ideologies of Love and Poetry
8. Maria Wyke: Reading Female Flesh: Amores 3.1
9. Barbara Weiden Boyd: The Death of Corinna's Parrot Reconsidered: Poetry and Ovid's Amores
10. R. Alden Smith: Fantasy, Myth, and Love Letters: Text and Tale in Ovid's Heroides
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Alison R. Sharrock: Ovid and the Politics of Reading
Narrators and Narratives
12. E. J. Kenney: Ovidius Prooemians
13. Alessandro Barchiesi: Voices and Narrative `Instances' in the Metamorphoses
14. Peter E. Knox: Pyramus and Thisbe in Cyprus
15. Gianpiero Rosati: Form in
Motion: Weaving the Text in the Metamorphoses
16. Carole Newlands: Ovid's Narrator in the Fasti
On the Margins of Empire
17. Elaine Fantham: Ovid, Germanicus, and the Composition of the Fasti
18. Stephen Hinds: Booking the Return Trip
19. Gareth D. Williams: On Ovid's
Ibis: A Poem in Context
20. Denis Feeney: Si licet et fas est: Ovid's Fasti and the Problem of Free Speech under the Principate
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Peter E. Knox is Professor of Classics, University of Colorado.
