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Zusatztext ...the articles...are wholly worth reading...[some of which] I would instinctively and unreservedly regard as essential reading for every interested reader Informationen zum Autor Peter E. Knox is Professor of Classics, University of Colorado. Klappentext A collection of twenty classic papers by the critics most often consulted by students and teachers of Ovid's poetry. Taken together, these papers form the basis for contemporary interpretation of Ovid's works; an introduction by Peter Knox locates them within recent critical trends. All Latin in the text has been translated. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: Horizons in Ovidian Scholarship Contexts and Intertexts 1: Stephen Hinds: Generalizing about Ovid 2: Niklas Holzberg: Playing with his Life: Ovid's Autobiographical References 3: Duncan F. Kennedy: The Epistolary Mode and the First of Ovid's Heroides 4: John F. Miller: Ovidian Allusion and the Vocabulary of Memory 5: James J. O'Hara: Vergil's Best Reader? Ovidian Commentary on Vergilian Etymological Wordplay 6: Philip Hardie: Lucretius and the Delusions of Narcissus 7: Sergio Casali: Other Voices in Ovid's `Aeneid' Ideologies of Love and Poetry 8: Maria Wyke: Reading Female Flesh: Amores 3.1 9: Barbara Weiden Boyd: The Death of Corinna's Parrot Reconsidered: Poetry and Ovid's Amores 10: R. Alden Smith: Fantasy, Myth, and Love Letters: Text and Tale in Ovid's Heroides 11: Alison R. Sharrock: Ovid and the Politics of Reading Narrators and Narratives 12: E. J. Kenney: Ovidius Prooemians 13: Alessandro Barchiesi: Voices and Narrative `Instances' in the Metamorphoses 14: Peter E. Knox: Pyramus and Thisbe in Cyprus 15: Gianpiero Rosati: Form in Motion: Weaving the Text in the Metamorphoses 16: Carole Newlands: Ovid's Narrator in the Fasti On the Margins of Empire 17: Elaine Fantham: Ovid, Germanicus, and the Composition of the Fasti 18: Stephen Hinds: Booking the Return Trip 19: Gareth D. Williams: On Ovid's Ibis: A Poem in Context 20: Denis Feeney: Si licet et fas est: Ovid's Fasti and the Problem of Free Speech under the Principate ...