A Handbook to the Reception of Ovid presents more than 30
original essays written by leading scholars revealing the rich
diversity of critical engagement with Ovid’s poetry that
spans the Western tradition from antiquity to the present
day.
* Offers innovative perspectives on Ovid’s poetry and its
reception from antiquity to the present day
* Features contributions from more than 30 leading scholars in
the Humanities.
* Introduces familiar and unfamiliar figures in the history of
Ovidian reception.
* Demonstrates the enduring and transformative power of
Ovid’s poetry into modern times.
Cuprins
Illustrations ix
Notes on Contributors xi
Acknowledgments xvii
Introduction 1
Carole E. Newlands and John F. Miller
1 Ovid’s Self-Reception in His Exile Poetry 8
K. Sara Myers
2 Modeling Reception in Metamorphoses: Ovid’s Epic Cyclops
22
Andrew Feldherr
3 Ovidian Myths on Pompeian Walls 36
Peter E. Knox
4 Ovid in Flavian Occasional Poetry (Martial and Statius)
55
Gianpiero Rosati
5 Poetae Ovidiani: Ovid’s Metamorphoses in Imperial Roman
Epic 70
Alison Keith
6 Ovid in Apuleius’ Metamorphoses 86
Stephen Harrison
7 A Poet between Two Worlds: Ovid in Late Antiquity 100
Ian Fielding
8 Commentary and Collaboration in the Medieval Allegorical
Tradition 114
Jamie C. Fumo
9 The Mythographic Tradition after Ovid 129
Gregory Hays
10 Ovid’s Exile and Medieval Italian Literature: The Lyric
Tradition 144
Catherine Keen
11 Venus’s Clerk: Ovid’s Amatory Poetry in the
Middle Ages 161
Marilynn Desmond
12 The Metamorphosis of Ovid in Dante’s Divine Comedy
174
Diskin Clay
13 Ovid in Chaucer and Gower 187
Andrew Galloway
14 Ovid’s Metamorphoses and the History of Baroque Art
202
Paul Barolsky
15 The Poetics of Time: The Fasti in the Renaissance 217
Maggie Kilgour
16 Shakespeare and Ovid 232
Sean Keilen
17 Ben Jonson’s Light Reading 246
Heather James
18 Love Poems in Sequence: The Amores from Petrarch to Goethe
262
Gordon Braden
19 Don Quixote as Ovidian Text 277
Frederick A. de Armas
20 Spenser and Ovid 291
Philip Hardie
21 Ovidian Intertextuality in Ariosto’s Orlando Furioso
306
Sergio Casali
22 ‘Joy and Harmles Pastime’: Milton and the Ovidian
Arts of Leisure 324
Mandy Green
23 Ovid Translated: Early Modern Versions of the Metamorphoses
339
Dan Hooley
24 Ovid in Restoration and Eighteenth-Century England 355
James M. Horowitz
25 The Influence of Ovid in Opera 371
Jon Solomon
26 Ovid in Germany 386
Theodore Ziolkowski
27 Ovid and Russia’s Poets of Exile 401
Andrew Kahn
28 Alter-Ovid–Contemporary Art on the Hyphen 416
Jill H. Casid
29 Contemporary Poetry: After After Ovid 436
Sarah Annes Brown
30 Ovid’s ‘Biography’: Novels of Ovid’s
Exile 454
Rainer Godel
31 Ovid and the Cinema: An Introduction 469
Martin M.Winkler
Index 485
Despre autor
John F. Miller is the Arthur F. and Marian W. Stocker
Professor of Classics and Chair of the Department of Classics at
the University of Virginia. His publications include Apollo,
Augustus, and the Poets (2009) and Ovid’s Elegiac
Festivals: Studies in the Fasti (1991).
Carole Newlands is Professor of Classics at the
University of Colorado Boulder. Her publications include
Statius: Poet between Rome and Naples (2012); Statius,
Siluae 2, A Commentary (2011); Statius’ Siluae and the
Poetics of Empire (2002); Playing with Time: Ovid and the
Fasti (1995).