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This Festschrift in honour of the classical scholar Stephen Heyworth brings together eleven experts on the genre of Latin elegy. All chapters focus on the close reading of elegiac texts…
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Ovidian
A Quiet Sorcery weaves a calming tapestry of text and image. Gentle on the eye and mind alike, this book features original poetry by Jo Ward alongside a carefully curated…
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Raymond Marks
In the Argonautica, Valerius Flaccus not only recounts a voyage, that of the Argonauts in their quest for the golden fleece, but takes a journey himself, a poetic one, during…
M. L. Stapleton
No history of the longstanding critical tradition of exploring the Spenser-Ovid relationship has been written. In this book Professor Stapleton constructs such a critical history: the annotations of E. K…
Mandy Green
Gracefully incorporating existing scholarship, close textual readings, and seventeenth-century writings, this book is a fresh and thorough exploration of the Ovidian allusions central to understanding Milton’s Eve. Mandy Green’s informed…
Michael A Calabrese
More than any other poet in Chaucer’s library, Ovid was concerned with the game of love. Chaucer learned his sexual poetics from Ovid, and his fascination with Ovidian love strategies…
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The uses and effects of repetition, imitation, and appropriation in Latin epic poetry.
Michael A. Calabrese
This text is a full study of Ovid and Chaucer, focusing on love, desire and the gender-power struggles that Chaucer explores through Ovid. The author begins by examining the breadth…
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Taking cross-disciplinary and comparative approaches to the volume’s subject, this exciting collection of essays offers a reassessment of Shakespeare’s erotic and Ovidian mythology within classical and continental aesthetic contexts. Through…
Ovid and his influence are studied in classrooms as various as his poetry, and this Approaches volume aims to help instructors in those diverse teaching environments. Part 1, Materials, is…
Gregory Heyworth
Gregory Heyworth’s Desiring Bodies considers the physical body and its relationship to poetic and corporate bodies in the Middle Ages and Renaissance.
The only scholarly monograph to focus on Ovid’s ‘Iphis and Ianthe’.
Laurel Fulkerson (Florida State University)
This works represents a new departure in the treatment of Ovid’s Heroides, letters by women deserted by men. It portrays the women as agents rather than victims, employing textual strategies…
S. Carter
Carter explores early modern culture’s reception of Ovid through the manipulation of Ovidian myth by Shakespeare, Middleton, Heywood, Marlowe and Marston. With a focus on sexual violence, homosexuality, incest and…
Kathryn McKinley
This study investigates the reception of Ovidian heroines in Metamorphoses commentaries written between 1100 and 1618 on the Continent in England. Medieval and early modern clerical readings of the feminine…
Daniel D. Moss
Moss’s research exposes the literary impulses at work in the flourishing of poetry that grappled with Ovid’s cultural authority.
Lindsay Ann Reid
The author analyzes how Ovidian-inspired mythologies and bibliographical aetiologies informed the sixteenth-century creation, reproduction, and representation of books, and provides alternative models for thinking about the dynamics of reception, adaptation…
This book is a study of Ovid and his poetry as a cultural phenomenon, conceived in the belief that such a study of tradition also casts fresh light on Ovid…
Marek Tue Kretschmer
The Versus Eporedienses (Verses from Ivrea), written around the year 1080 and attributed to a certain Wido, is a highly fascinating elegiac love poem celebrating worldly pleasures in an age…
James Tate
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either…
