Approaches to Teaching the Works of Ovid and the Ovidian Tradition

Informationen zum Autor Barbara Weiden Boyd is Henry Winkley Professor of Latin and Greek at Bowdoin College. She specializes in the literature of the late Roman Republic and early principate, especially the poetry of Vergil and Ovid. Her publications include a monograph on Ovid's Amores and Brill's Companion to Ovid as well as a textbook on selections from Vergil's Aeneid for use in high schools and colleges. Her projects include a commentary on Ovid's Remedia amoris . Cora Fox is assistant professor of English at Arizona State University. She is the author of Ovid and the Politics of Emotion in Elizabethan England (2009) and has published on how Ovidianism shapes late Elizabethan English literature and culture. Her current projects include a study of how classicism accomplishes cultural work in Renaissance popular culture. Klappentext Ovid and his influence are studied in classrooms as various as his poetry! and this Approaches volume aims to help instructors in those diverse teaching environments. Part 1 features brief overviews designed to give non-specialists background on the more challenging aspects of teaching Ovid. Part 2 considers Ovid's relation to Vergil and the development of Ovid's influence and reception! from the medieval and early modern period to the reinvigoration of Ovid studies in the twentieth century.

Product details

• Authors: Barbara Weiden (EDT) Boyd
• Assisted by: Barbara Weiden Boyd (Editor), Cora Fox (Editor), Barbara Weiden Boyd (Editor)
• Publisher: Modern Language Assn Of Amer
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.04.2010
• EAN: 9781603290630
• ISBN: 978-1-60329-063-0
• Series: Approaches to Teaching World L; Approaches to Teaching World Literature 113; Approaches to Teaching World L; Approaches to Teaching World Literature 113
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama > Poetry; Guides > Spirituality > Ancient knowledge, ancient cultures; Humanities, art, music > Education > School education, didactics, methodology