Ovid, Death and Transfiguration

The open access publication of this book has been published with the support of the Swiss National Science Foundation.

Death, the ultimate change, is an unexpected Leitmotiv of Ovid’s career and reception. The eighteen contributions collected in this volume explore the theme of death and transfiguration in Ovid’s own career and his posthumous reception, revealing a unity in diversity that has not been appreciated in these terms before now.

Joseph Farrell is Professor of Classical Studies at the University of Pennsylvania, where he has taught since 1984. He has published a number of articles and monographs on classical Latin literature, including most recently Juno's Aeneid: A Battle for Heroic Identity (Princeton 2021).

John F. Miller is Arthur F. and Marian W. Stocker Professor of Classics at the University of Virginia. He has published widely in the area of Latin literature, including Apollo, Augustus, and the Poets (Cambridge 2009), and has edited several collaborative volumes, most recently (with Jenny Strauss Clay), Tracking Hermes, Pursuing Mercury (Oxford 2019).

Damien P. Nelis is Professor of Latin at the University of Geneva. He is currently preparing a digital edition of the Achilleid of Statius and is writing a book on Vergil’s Georgics.

Alessandro Schiesaro is Professor of Latin Literature at the Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa. He has published work on several Roman authors, including Lucretius, Virgil, Horace, Ovid and Seneca.

Contributors are: Bettina Bergmann, Francesca Romana Berno, Alessandro Betori, Emma Buckley, Elena Calandra, Sergio Casali, Jacqueline Fabre-Serris, Laurel Fulkerson, Luigi Galasso, Philip Hardie, Stephen Hinds, A.M. Keith, Florence Klein, Giuseppe La Bua, Alison Sharrock, Thea Selliaas Thorsen, Francesco Ursini, Katharina Volk, Anke Walter.