Companion to Ovid

Peter E. Knox is Professor of Classics at the University of Colorado. His publications include Ovid's Metamorphoses and the Traditions of Augustan Poetry (1986) and Ovid, Heroides: Select Epistles (1995), as well as many articles on a wide range of topics in Greek and Roman literature.

“The result is something quite extraordinary, a coherent and engaging treatment of the full corpus of Ovid’s writing in just under 130 pages . . . V. has produced an eminently readable, highly engaging introduction to Ovid, one that speaks to exactly the audience she had envisaged, in a voice both accessible and smart.”  (The Classical Review, 1 October 2012)“Aimed at the general reading public and at newcomers to Ovid, her book is also a delight for experienced Ovidian scholars, providing an engaging, attractive, and thoughtful overview of the poet and his works that shows why his oeuvre remains intellectually valuable as well as an enjoyable read. Fluent and accessible, the volume covers a great deal of ground with lightness of foot. Volk takes a thematic approach that cuts across individual works in productive ways, but the simple titles of the chapters – ‘Work’, ‘Life’, ‘Elegy’, ‘Myth’, ‘Art’, ‘Women’, ‘Rome’, ‘Reception’ – do not adequately convey a sense of the treasures that lie within their pages.”  (Greece & Rome, 1 October 2012)

• List of Figures viii Notes 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 Roman Poetry 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