Commentary on Ovid, Remedia Amoris - Edited With Introduction and Commentary

A detailed philological and interpretative reading of Ovid's most neglected poem, the Remedia Amoris. In her immersive, creatively interpretative guide to the poem, Victoria Rimell's commentary resets critical perspectives by reading the Remedia as distinctive and original, and as a pivotal text within Ovid's oeuvre.

List of contents

• Introduction


• 1: Poisonous cures: the Remedia in Ovid


• 2: The erotodidactic tradition, 'technical' texts, and the Remedia


• 3: Structure


• 4: Organisational principles


• 5: Ovid's double audience in the Remedia


• 6: Title


• 7: Date


• 8: Receptions


• 9: Manuscript tradition


• Text and critical apparatus


• Sigla


• Remedia Amoris: Text


• Commentary


• Abbreviations

About the author

Victoria Rimell is Professor of Latin at the University of Warwick, and has written extensively on Ovid and early imperial Latin literature. Her books include Ovid's Lovers: Desire, Difference and the Poetic Imagination (2006), and The Closure of Space in Roman Poetics (2015).

Summary

A detailed philological and interpretative reading of Ovid's most neglected poem, the Remedia Amoris. In her immersive, creatively interpretative guide to the poem, Victoria Rimell's commentary resets critical perspectives by reading the Remedia as distinctive and original, and as a pivotal text within Ovid's oeuvre.

Product details

• Authors: Victoria Rimell, Victoria (Professor of Latin Rimell
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.04.2024
• EAN: 9780192894212
• ISBN: 978-0-19-289421-2
• No. of pages: 448
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; HISTORY / Ancient / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry, POETRY / Ancient & Classical, Classical texts, Literary studies: classical, early & medieval, Ancient History, Classical history / classical civilisation, Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval, Ancient, classical and medieval texts