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Author: Miller, John F. (Editor)/ Newlands, Carole E. (Editor)
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by John F. Miller (Editor); Carole E. Newlands (Editor)

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A Handbook to the Reception of Ovid presents a series of essays revealing the rich diversity and vitality of critical engagement with Ovid's poetry taking place from antiquity to the present day. Featuring contributions from more than 30 leading experts, readings cover a broad sweep of Ovidian reception while addressing the celebrated Roman poet's manifold impact on literature, art, music and film over the past two millennia.

While the influence of Ovid's Metamorphoses is paramount, serious attention is also paid to the ways that authors and artists have engaged with his other major works--from Ovid's collections of elegiac love poems and fictional letters of mythological heroines to his emotive poetry of exile. Collectively, essays reveal the myriad ways that Ovid's works have been interpreted, rewritten, critiqued, adapted, translated, and metamorphosed through various time periods and cultures.

Utilizing a wide range of critical and comparative approaches, A Handbook to the Reception of Ovid vividly illustrates Ovid's enduring importance to Western culture--and sheds important new light on arguably the most influential poet of Latin antiquity.

Details

Title A Handbook to the Reception of Ovid
Author John F. Miller (Editor); Carole E. Newlands (Editor)
Binding Hardcover
Pages 520
Volumes 1
Language ENG
Publisher Wiley-Blackwell
Date 2014
Illustrated Yes
ISBN 9781444339673 / 1444339672
Weight 2 lbs (0.91 kg)
Dimensions 9.7 x 6.7 x 1.3 in (24.64 x 17.02 x 3.30 cm)
Themes
- Chronological Period: Ancient (To 499 A.D.)
- Interdisciplinary Studies: Classics
Library of Congress subjects Ovid - Criticism and interpretation
Library of Congress Catalog Number 2014007148
Dewey Decimal Code 871.01

About the author

John F. Miller is the Arthur F. and Marian W. Stocker Professor of Classics and Chair of the Department of Classics at the University of Virginia. His publications include Apollo, Augustus, and the Poets (2009) and Ovid's Elegiac Festivals: Studies in the Fasti (1991).

Carole Newlands is Professor of Classics at the University of Colorado Boulder. Her publications include Statius: Poet between Rome and Naples (2012); Statius, Siluae 2, A Commentary (2011); Statius' Siluae and the Poetics of Empire (2002); Playing with Time: Ovid and the Fasti (1995).