Ovid's Causes
Author: K. Sara Myers
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Published: 1994
Total Pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9780472104598
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA stimulating investigation of some of Ovid's source-material.
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Ovid's Metamorphoses
Author: Elaine Fantham
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 200
ISBN-13: 9780195154092
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis introduction to Ovid's Metamorphoses considers how Ovid defined and shaped his narrative, its cultural context, and its vivid depictions of the cruelty of jealous gods, the pathos of human love, and the imaginative fantasy of flight, monsters, magicand illusion.
Ovid's Literary Loves
Author: Barbara Weiden Boyd
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9780472107599
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBrings the Amores into the forefront of scholarly discussion
Ovid's 'Metamorphoses'
Author: Genevieve Liveley
Publisher: A&C Black
Published: 2010-12-23
Total Pages: 209
ISBN-13: 1441170812
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPerhaps no other classical text has proved its versatility so much as Ovid's epic poem. A staple of undergraduate courses in Classical Studies, Latin, English and Comparative Literature, Metamorphoses is arguably one of the most important, canonical Latin texts and certainly among the most widely read and studied. Ovid's 'Metamorphoses': A Reader's Guide is the ideal companion to this epic classical text offering guidance on: • Literary, historical and cultural context • Key themes • Reading the text • Reception and influence • Further reading
Founding the Year: Ovid's Fasti and the Poetics of the Roman Calendar
Author: Molly Pasco-Pranger
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2017-07-31
Total Pages: 345
ISBN-13: 9047409590
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book considers the relationship between the Fasti, Ovid's long poem on the Roman calendar, and the calendar itself, conceived of as consisting both in the rites and commemorations it organizes and in its graphic representation. The Fasti treats the calendar, recently revised by Caesar and Augustus, as its most important cultural model and as a quasi-literary 'intertext': the poem simultaneously reshapes and is itself shaped by the calendar. The study includes chapters on Book 4 and the rites of April, on the addition of Julio-Claudian holidays to the calendar, and on the final two books of the poem as shaped by the renaming of the months Quintilis and Sextilis for Julius Caesar and Augustus.
Ovid's Metamorphoses
Author: Ovid
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 588
ISBN-13: 9780806128948
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOvid's Metamorphosesis a weaving-together of classical myths, extending in time from the creation of the world to the death of Julius Caesar. This volume provides the Latin text of the first five books of the poem and the most detailed commentary available in English of these books.
On Ovid's Metamorphoses
Author: Gareth Williams
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 2023-02-06
Total Pages: 129
ISBN-13: 0231553757
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOvid’s Metamorphoses has entranced audiences for two thousand years, from Rome under Augustus to humanities classrooms today. Borrowing liberally from Greek and Roman mythology, the poem tells hundreds of stories that share one essential theme: each tale depicts a transformation from one physical form into another. Drawing on many years of teaching the Metamorphoses, Gareth Williams offers a brisk and lively reading of the poem that emphasizes why it speaks in compelling ways to a twenty-first-century audience. He shows how the Metamorphoses is not just a colorful collection of stories about change but an exploration of change itself. Ovid challenges us to recognize flux as fundamental to human experience: circumstances shift, fortunes ebb and flow, and our very identities ceaselessly evolve across from one life stage to another. Capturing the energy and excitement that Ovid’s poem generates among readers, Williams also sheds new light on its modern provocations. His fresh interpretations of the Metamorphoses reveal its power to enrich and inform our daily existence amid the uncertainties of life today.
Ovid
Author: Francesca K.A. Martelli
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2021-03-01
Total Pages: 97
ISBN-13: 9004450068
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrancesca Martelli surveys the contours of current scholarship on Ovid. Her appraisal covers the post-structuralist recuperation of Ovid's poetry that began in the 80s, and looks toward the narratives that posthumanism and other new materialist discourses have yet to disclose.
Narrative Dynamics in Ovid's Metamorphoses
Author: Stephen Michael Wheeler
Publisher: Gunter Narr Verlag
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 188
ISBN-13: 9783823348795
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOvid's Homer
Author: Barbara Weiden Boyd
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2017-11-07
Total Pages: 321
ISBN-13: 0190680059
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOvid's Homer examines the Latin poet's engagement with the Homeric poems throughout his career. Boyd offers detailed analysis of Ovid's reading and reinterpretation of a range of Homeric episodes and characters from both epics, and demonstrates the pervasive presence of Homer in Ovid's work. The resulting intertextuality, articulated as a poetics of paternity or a poetics of desire, is particularly marked in scenes that have a history of scholiastic interest or critical intervention; Ovid repeatedly asserts his mastery as Homeric reader and critic through his creative response to alternative readings, and in the process renews Homeric narrative for a sophisticated Roman readership. Boyd offers new insight into the dynamics of a literary tradition, illuminating a previously underappreciated aspect of Ovidian intertextuality.
