
Brill's companion to Ovid.
Title:
Brill's companion to Ovid.
Author:
Weiden Boyd, B.
ISBN:
9789047400950
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (550 pages)
Contents:
Contents -- Preface -- List of Contributors -- 1. Ovid and the Augustan Milieu -- 2. Ovid's Language and Style -- 3. The Amores: The Invention of Ovid -- 4. The Heroides: Elegiac Voices -- 5. Praecepta amoris: Ovid's Didactic Elegy -- 6. The Fasti: Style, Structure, and Time -- 7 Ovid's Fasti: Politics, History, and Religion -- 8. Sources and Genres in Ovid's Metamorphoses 1-5 -- 9. Narrative Techniques and Narrative Structures in the Metamorphoses -- 10. The House of Fame: Roman History and Augustan Politics in Metamorphoses 11--15 -- 11. Ovid's Exilic Poetry: Worlds Apart -- 12. Siquid habent ueri uatum praesagia: Ovid in the 1st-5th Centuries A.D. -- 13. Ovid in the Middle Ages: Exile, Mythographer, Lover -- 14. Manuscript Traditions and the Transmission of Ovid's Works -- General Bibliography -- Index Locorum -- A -- B -- C -- E -- H -- I -- J -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- S -- T -- V -- W -- General Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W.
Abstract:
This volume on the Roman poet Ovid (43 BCE - 17 CE) contains articles by 14 international scholars. Contributions cover a wide range of topics, including a biographical essay, a survey of the major manuscripts and textual traditions, and a comprehensive discussion of Ovid's style.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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