Ovid: The Poet and His Work - Hardcover

Holzberg, Niklas

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0801437547 ISBN 13: 9780801437540

Publisher: Cornell University Press, 2002

Synopsis

The Roman poet Ovid is enjoying a renaissance. Though relegated to the margins in the Romantic period, since the mid-1980s he has become popular again, not only with classicists and other lovers of ancient poetry, but also with poets and prose writers. He himself is the protagonist of a number of recent novels and stories, including Jane Alison's The Love Artist, Derek Mahon's Ovid in Tomis, and David Malouf's An Imaginary Life. Ovid's greatest work, the Metamorphoses, has inspired authors such as Seamus Heaney and Ted Hughes to publish retellings of certain of his stories of transformation.

The distinguished classicist Niklas Holzberg offers a highly readable, concise yet comprehensive overview of all of Ovid's varied works, giving each stage of Ovid's career its due and allowing no text to be diminished by serving as a prelude or epilogue to others. In addition, Holzberg's own insightful, frequently witty observations infuse the book, resulting in a rounded vision of a storyteller Holzberg finds to be distinctly modern.

About this title

About the Author:

Niklas Holzberg is Professor of Classics at the University of Munich and the author of numerous books, including The Ancient Novel: An Introduction. G. M. Goshgarian is the translator of several books from Cornell, including The Jew and the Other and Three Women in Dark Times: Edith Stein, Hannah Arendt, and Simone Weil.

Language Notes:

Text: English (translation)
Original Language: German

About this edition

• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0801437547
• ISBN 13: 9780801437540
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 240