Ovid, Death and Transfiguration

Joseph Farrell is Professor of Classical Studies at the University of Pennsylvania, where he has taught since 1984. He has published a number of articles and monographs on classical Latin literature, including most recently Juno's Aeneid: A Battle for Heroic Identity (Princeton 2021).John F. Miller is Arthur F. and Marian W. Stocker Professor of Classics at the University of Virginia. He has published widely in the area of Latin literature, including Apollo, Augustus, and the Poets (Cambridge 2009), and has edited several collaborative volumes, most recently (with Jenny Strauss Clay), Tracking Hermes, Pursuing Mercury (Oxford 2019).Damien P. Nelis is Professor of Latin at the University of Geneva. He is currently preparing a digital edition of the Achilleid of Statius and is writing a book on Vergil’s Georgics.Alessandro Schiesaro is Professor of Latin Literature at the Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa. He has published work on several Roman authors, including Lucretius, Virgil, Horace, Ovid and Seneca.Contributors are: Bettina Bergmann, Francesca Romana Berno, Alessandro Betori, Emma Buckley, Elena Calandra, Sergio Casali, Jacqueline Fabre-Serris, Laurel Fulkerson, Luigi Galasso, Philip Hardie, Stephen Hinds, A.M. Keith, Florence Klein, Giuseppe La Bua, Alison Sharrock, Thea Selliaas Thorsen, Francesco Ursini, Katharina Volk, Anke Walter.

• AcknowledgementsList of FiguresIntroduction: Ovid, Death and TransfigurationPart 1 Death and the Lover1 Death, Lament, and “Elegiac Aetiology” in Ovid’s MetamorphosesAnke Walter2 Duo moriemur: Death and Doubling in Ovid’s MetamorphosesFlorence Klein3 Ovid’s Artistic Transfiguration, Procris and CephalusThea Thorsen4 Suicides for Love, Phyllis, Dido, Pyramus and Thisbe: Critical Variations on a Famous Motif of Erotic Poetry?Jacqueline Fabre-Serris5 Ovidian Pathology, in Love and in ExileLaurel FulkersonPart 2 Death and the Artist6 Frigid Landscapes and Literary Frigidity in Ovid’s Exile PoetryA.M. Keith7 Fantasies of Death in Ovid’s Poetry of ExileLuigi Galasso8 Seeing and Knowing in Roman PaintingBettina Bergmann9 The Niobids and the Augustan Age: On Some Recent Discoveries at Ciampino (Rome)Alessandro Betori and Elena CalandraPart 3 Revenants and Undead10 Ambobus pellite regnis: Between Life and Death in Ovid’s MetamorphosesAlison Sharrock11 Ovid’s Exile Poetry and ZombiesStephen Hinds12 C.H. Sisson’s Metamorphoses and the “New Age of Ovid”Francesco Ursini13 Reviving the Dead: Ovid in Early Modern EnglandEmma BuckleyPart 4 Immortals and Others14 From Chaos to Chaos: Janus in Fasti 1 and the Gates of WarFrancesca Romana Berno15 Intertextuality, Parody, and Immortality of Poetry: Petronius and OvidGiuseppe La Bua16 Tod und Erklärung: Ovid on the Death of Julius Caesar (Met. 15.745–851)Katharina Volk17 The Books of Fate: The Venus-Jupiter Scene in Ovid’s Metamorphoses 15 and Its Epic ModelsSergio Casali18 Apotheoses of the PoetPhilip HardieIndex