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Cambridge Companion to Ovid »

Authors: Philip Hardie (Editor), Philip R. Hardie
ISBN-13: 9780521772815, ISBN-10: 0521772818
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Date Published: April 2002
Edition: (Non-applicable)

Accessible but exciting critical handbook on one of the greatest writers of classical antiquity.

	List of illustrations
	List of contributors
	Preface
	Introduction	1
1	Ovid and ancient literary history	13
2	Ovid and early imperial literature	34
3	Ovid and empire	46
4	Ovid and the professional discourses of scholarship, religion, rhetoric	62
5	Ovid and genre: evolutions of an elegist	79
6	Gender and sexuality	95
7	Myth in Ovid	108
8	Landscape with figures: aesthetics of place in the Metamorphoses and its tradition	122
9	Ovid and the discourses of love: the amatory works	150
10	Metamorphosis in the Metamorphoses	163
11	Narrative technique and narratology in the Metamorphoses	180
12	Mandati memores: political and poetic authority in the Fasti	200
13	Epistolarity: the Heroides	217
14	Ovid's exile poetry: Tristia, Epistulae ex Ponto and Ibis	233
15	Ovid in English translation	249
16	Ovid in the Middle Ages: authority and poetry	264
17	Love and exile after Ovid	288
18	Re-embodying Ovid: Renaissance afterlives	301
19	Recent receptions of Ovid	320
20	Ovid and art	336
	Dateline	368
	Works cited	371
	Index	399