An Ovid Reader: Selections from Seven Works (Bc Latin Readers)

Carole E. Newlands

ISBN 10: 0865167222 / ISBN 13: 9780865167223

Published by Bolchazy Carducci Pub, 2014

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: An Ovid Reader: Selections from Seven Works (Bc Latin Readers)
• Publisher: Bolchazy Carducci Pub
• Publication Date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0865167222
• ISBN 13: 9780865167223
• Binding: paperback
• Condition: Very Good

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Synopsis

Ovid s poetry, once regarded as superficial in comparison to that of other Augustan poets, is now hailed for its artistry, its mastery at storytelling, and the profound influence it has had on literature and art from the poet s own time to the present day. This Reader s commentary gives grammatical and syntactical assistance, seasoned with appreciation of the fine points of Ovid s complex literary style. Latin selections are drawn in part from his elegiac poems and demonstrate the new range of directions for elegy developed by Ovid: not merely love elegy (Amores, and with a fresh epistolary form in Heroides); but also didactic and aetiological elegy (Ars Amatoria, Fasti), each with a twist on expected subject-matter; and exile poetry (Tristia, Epistulae ex Ponto), whose elegiac themes are adapted from earlier poetry to express emotional as well as political meaning after Ovid s banishment from his beloved Rome. Select passages from the epic Metamorphoses, a brilliant experiment that uses a variety of genres under a unifying theme, fill out the collection with the work acknowledged to be Ovid s major achievement.

About the Author

Carole E. Newlands is Professor of Classics at the University of Colorado, Boulder. She is author of Playing with Time: Ovid s Fasti (Cornell 1995); Statius Silvae and the Poetics of Empire (Cambridge 2002); Statius, Silvae Book II (Cambridge 2011); Statius, Poet between Rome and Naples (Bloomsbury Publishing 2013); and numerous articles on Augustan, post-Augustan, and Medieval Latin literature and culture, and reception studies.