Oxford readings in Ovid / edited by Peter E. Knox.

Other author Knox, Peter E.
Format Book
Publication InfoOxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2006.
Descriptionviii, 541 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Supplemental ContentTable of contents only
Subjects

SeriesOxford readings in classical studies
Oxford readings in classical studies. ^A584123
Contents Introduction : horizons in Ovidian scholarship / Peter E. Knox -- Generalising about Ovid / Stephen Hinds -- Playing with his life : Ovid's "autobiographical" references / Niklas Holzberg -- The epistolary mode and the first of Ovid's Heroides / Duncan F. Kennedy -- Ovidian allusion and the vocabulary of memory / John F. Miller -- Vergil's best reader? : Ovidian commentary on Vergilian etymological wordplay / James J. O'Hara -- Lucretius and the delusions of Narcissus / Philip Hardie -- Other voices in Ovid's "Aeneid" / Sergio Casali -- Reading female flesh : Amores 3.1 / Maria Wyke -- The death of Corinna's parrot reconsidered : poetry and Ovid's Amores / Barbara Weiden Boyd -- Fantasy, myth, and love letters : text and tale in Ovid's Heroides / R. Alden Smith -- Ovid and the politics of reading / Alison R. Sharrock -- Ovidius Prooemians / E. J. Kenney -- Voices and narrative "instances" in the Metamorphoses / Alessandro Barchiesi -- Pyramus and Thisbe in Cyprus / Peter E. Knox -- Form in motion : weaving the text in the Metamorphoses / Gianpiero Rosati -- Ovid's narrator in the Fasti / Carole Newlands -- Ovid, Germanicus, and the composition of the Fasti / Elaine Fantham -- Booking the return trip : Ovid and Tristia 1 / Stephen Hinds -- On Ovid's Ibis : a poem in context / Gareth D. Williams -- Si licet et fas est : Ovid's Fasti and the problem of free speech under the principate / Denis Feeney.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. [491]-524) and indexes.
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