A Companion to Ovid

A Companion to Ovid is a comprehensive overview of one of the most influential poets of classical antiquity. 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

A Companion to Ovid is a comprehensive overview of one ofthe most influential poets of classical antiquity.* Features more than 30 newly commissioned chapters by notedscholars writing in their areas of specialization* Illuminates various aspects of Ovid's work, such as productiongenre, and style* Presents interpretive essays on key poems and collections ofpoems* Includes detailed discussions of Ovid's primary literaryinfluences and his reception in English literature* Provides a chronology of key literary and historical eventsduring Ovid's lifetime

List of Figures viiiNotes on Contributors ixPreface xivList of Abbreviations xvChronological Table xviiPart I Contexts 11. A Poet's Life 3Peter E. Knox2. Poetry in Augustan Rome 8Mario Citroni3. Rhetoric and Ovid's Poetry 26Elaine Fantham4. Ovid and Religion 45Julia Dyson HejdukPart II Texts 595. The Amores: Ovid Making Love 61Joan Booth6. The Heroides: Female Elegy? 78Laurel Fulkerson7. The Ars Amatoria 90Roy K. Gibson8. Remedia Amoris 104Barbara Weiden Boyd9. Fasti: The Poet, The Prince, and the Plebs 120Geraldine Herbert-Brown10. The Metamorphoses: A Poet's Poem 140E. J. Kenney11. The Metamorphoses: Politics and Narrative 154Gareth D. Williams12. Tristia 170Jo-Marie Claassen13. Ibis 184Martin Helzle14. Epistulae ex Ponto 194Luigi Galasso15. Lost and Spurious Works 207Peter E. KnoxPart III Intertexts 21716. Ovid and Hellenistic Poetry 219Jane L. Lightfoot17. Ovid and Callimachus: Rewriting the Master 236Benjamin Acosta-Hughes18. Ovid's Catullus and the Neoteric Moment in RomanPoetry 252David Wray19. Propertius and Ovid 265S. J. Heyworth20. Tibullus and Ovid 279Robert Maltby21. Ovid's Reception of Virgil 294Richard F. ThomasPart IV Critical and Scholarly Approaches 30922. Editing Ovid: Immortal Works and Material Texts 311Mark Possanza23. Commenting on Ovid 327Peter E. Knox24. Ovidian Intertextuality 341Sergio Casali25. Sexuality and Gender 355Alison Keith26. Ovid's Generic Transformations 370Joseph Farrell27. Theorizing Ovid 381Efrossini SpentzouPart V Literary Receptions 39528. Ovidian Strategies in Early Imperial Literature 397Charles McNelis29. The Medieval Ovid 411John M. Fyler30. Ovid in Renaissance English Literature 423Heather James31. Ovid and Shakespeare 442Gordon Braden32. Ovid in the Twentieth Century 455Theodore Ziolkowski33. Translating Ovid 469Christopher MartinBibliography 485Index 516