Transformations of Ovid in Late Antiquity

This book highlights Ovid's influence on important later Latin authors writing from the fourth to the sixth centuries in Europe and Africa.

List of contents

Introduction: a poet between two worlds; 1. Ovid Recalled in the Poetic Correspondence of Ausonius and Paulinus of Nola; 2. Ovid and the Transformation of the Late Roman World of Rutilius Namatianus; 3. The Poet and the Vandal Prince: Ovidian Rhetoric in Dracontius' Satisfactio; 4. The Remedies of Elegy in Ovid, Boethius and Maximianus; 5. The Ovidian Heroine of Venantius Fortunatus, Appendix 1; Conclusion: Ovid's Late Antiquity.

About the author

Ian Fielding is Assistant Professor of Classical Studies at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He has published a number of articles on Latin poetry in late antiquity and on classical receptions in Naples and Campania.

Summary

Although Ovid is perhaps the most influential Latin poet, the vast bibliography on his reception has so far focused almost entirely on the second millennium AD. This book explores his importance for late antique authors in Italy, Gaul, Spain and Africa, and will interest Latinists and scholars of late antiquity.

Product details

• Authors: Ian Fielding, Ian (University of Michigan Fielding
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.09.2017
• EAN: 9781107178434
• ISBN: 978-1-107-17843-4
• No. of pages: 266
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies; HISTORY / Ancient / General, Literature & literary studies, Literary studies: classical, early & medieval, Ancient History