A Companion to Ovid

Peter E. Knox is Professor of Classics at the University of Colorado. His publications include Ovid's Metamorphoses and the Traditions of Augustan Poetry (1986) and Ovid, Heroides: Select Epistles (1995), as well as many articles on a wide range of topics in Greek and Roman literature.

List of Figures. Notes on Contributors. Preface. List of Abbreviations. Chronological Table. Part I Contexts. 1. A Poet's Life ( Peter E. Knox ). 2. Poetry in Augustan Rome ( Mario Citroni ). 3. Rhetoric and Ovid's Poetry ( Elaine Fantham ). 4. Ovid and Religion ( Julia Dyson Hejduk ). Part II Texts. 5. The Amores : Ovid Making Love ( Joan Booth ). 6. The Heroides : Female Elegy? ( Laurel Fulkerson ). 7. The Ars Amatoria ( Roy K. Gibson ). 8. Remedia Amoris ( Barbara Weiden Boyd ). 9. Fasti : The Poet, The Prince, and the Plebs ( Geraldine Herbert-Brown ). 10. The Metamorphoses : A Poet's Poem ( E. J. Kenney ). 11. The Metamorphoses : Politics and Narrative ( Gareth D. Williams ). 12. Tristia ( Jo-Marie Claassen ). 13. Ibis ( Martin Helzle ). 14. Epistulae ex Ponto ( Luigi Galasso ). 15. Lost and Spurious Works ( Peter E. Knox ). Part III Intertexts. 16. Ovid and Hellenistic Poetry ( Jane L. Lightfoot ). 17. Ovid and Callimachus: Rewriting the Master ( Benjamin Acosta-Hughes ). 18. Ovid's Catullus and the Neoteric Moment in Roman Poetry ( David Wray ). 19. Propertius and Ovid ( S. J. Heyworth ). 20. Tibullus and Ovid ( Robert Maltby ). 21. Ovid's Reception of Virgil ( Richard F. Thomas ). Part IV Critical and Scholarly Approaches. 22. Editing Ovid: Immortal Works and Material Texts ( Mark Possanza ). 23. Commenting on Ovid ( Peter E. Knox ). 24. Ovidian Intertextuality ( Sergio Casali ). 25. Sexuality and Gender ( Alison Keith ). 26. Ovid's Generic Transformations ( Joseph Farrell ). 27. Theorizing Ovid ( Efrossini Spentzou ). Part V Literary Receptions. 28. Ovidian Strategies in Early Imperial Literature ( Charles McNelis ). 29. The Medieval Ovid ( John M. Fyler ). 30. Ovid in Renaissance English Literature ( Heather James ). 31. Ovid and Shakespeare ( Gordon Braden ). 32. Ovid in the Twentieth Century ( Theodore Ziolkowski ). 33. Translating Ovid ( Christopher Martin ). Bibliography. Index.