Boyd B.W. (ed.) Brill's Companion to Ovid

Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2002. — 548 p. — (Brill's Companions in Classical Studies) — ISBN: 90-04-12156-0.This volume on the Roman poet Ovid (43 BCE 17 CE) comprises articles by an international group of fourteen scholars. Their contributions cover a wide range of topics, including a biographical essay, a survey of the major manuscripts and textual traditions, and a comprehensive discussion of Ovid s style. The remaining chapters are devoted to focused studies of each of Ovid s major works, with emphasis given where appropriate to the poet s interest in genre and narrative techniques, his engagement with the poetry that preceded his oeuvre, his response to the political, religious, and social realities of Augustan Rome, and his enduring legacy in the European literary traditions of the first 1300 years after his death. "Brill's Companion to Ovid" combines close analysis of each of Ovid s major works with a comprehensive overview of scholarly trends in the study of Latin poetry and Roman literary culture. It will be a valuable resource for students and scholars of Latin literature alike.Ovid and the Augustan milieu / Peter White
Ovid's language and style / E.J. Kenney
The Amores: the invention of Ovid / Barbara Weiden Boyd
The Heroides: elegiac voices / Peter E. Knox
Praecepta amoris: Ovid's didactic elegy / Patricia Watson
The Fasti: style, structure, and time / John F. Miller
Ovid's Fasti: politics, history, and religion / Elaine Fantham
Sources and genres in Ovid's Metamorphoses 1-5 / Alison Keith
Narrative techniques and narrative structures in the Metamorphoses / Gianpiero Rosati
The house of fame: Roman history and Augustan politics in Metamorphoses 11-15 / Garth Tissol
Ovid's exilic poetry: worlds apart / Gareth Williams
Siquid habent ueri uatum praesagia: Ovid in the 1st-5th centuries A.D. / Michael Dewar
Ovid in the Middle Ages: exile, mythographer, lover / Ralph Hexter
Manuscript traditions and the transmission of Ovid's works / John Richmond