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A Companion to Ovid is a comprehensive overview of one of the most influential poets of classical antiquity.
- Features more than 30 newly commissioned chapters by noted scholars writing in their areas of specialization
- Illuminates various aspects of Ovid's work, such as production, genre, and style
- Presents interpretive essays on key poems and collections of poems
- Includes detailed discussions of Ovid's primary literary influences and his reception in English literature
- Provides a chronology of key literary and historical events during Ovid's lifetime
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This Companion is a fitting tribute to one of the most admired and influential poets of classical antiquity. More than 30 new essays from an international cast of noted literary specialists reflect the most recent developments in Ovidian scholarship. Written in an accessible and lively style, the essays represent a wide range of critical methodologies and approaches to Ovid’s world and literary oeuvre. These essays tackle such basic issues as backgrounds and contexts, genre and style, ancient and modern reception, while also offering provocative new interpretations of the poet's major works, from the Amores and Ars amatoria to the Metamorphoses and beyond.
Brimming with fresh and innovative scholarly insights, A Companion to Ovid is a comprehensive overview of a poet whose ever-increasing literary stature and popularity are now made accessible to a new generation of readers.
About the Author
Peter E. Knox is Professor of Classics at the University of Colorado. His publications include Ovid's Metamorphoses and the Traditions of Augustan Poetry (1986) and Ovid, Heroides: Select Epistles (1995), as well as many articles on a wide range of topics in Greek and Roman literature.
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- PublisherWiley-Blackwell
- Publication date2009
- ISBN 10 1405141832
- ISBN 13 9781405141833
- BindingHardcover
- LanguageEnglish
- Edition number1
- Number of pages552
- EditorKnox Peter E.
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