Ovid's Lovers

Ovid's Lovers
Author: Victoria Rimell
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 164
Release: 2006-06-15
Genre: History
ISBN: 0521862191

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A compelling investigation of the question of the male/female relationship, which is central to Ovid's works.

Loving Writing/Ovid's Amores

Loving Writing/Ovid's Amores
Author: Ellen Oliensis
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 211
Release: 2019-07-11
Genre: History
ISBN: 1108482309

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Offers detailed reading of the Amores, oriented toward the writer's and reader's pleasure, that reframes the discussion around elegy and identity.

Ovid: Ars Amatoria, Book III

Ovid: Ars Amatoria, Book III
Author: Ovid
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 8
Release: 2003
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780521813709

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This is a full-scale commentary devoted to the third book of Ovid's Ars Amatoria. It includes an Introduction, a revision of E. J. Kenney's Oxford text of the book, and detailed line-by-line and section-by-section commentary on the language and ideas of the text. Combining traditional philological scholarship with some of the concerns of more recent critics, both Introduction and commentary place particular emphasis on: the language of the text; the relationship of the book to the didactic, 'erotodidactic' and elegiac traditions; Ovid's usurpation of the lena's traditional role of erotic instructor of women; the poet's handling of the controversial subjects of cosmetics and personal adornment; and the literary and political significances of Ovid's unexpected emphasis in the text of Ars III on restraint and 'moderation'. The book will be of interest to all postgraduates and scholars working on Augustan poetry.

Amores

Amores
Author: Ovid
Publisher: Penguin Books
Total Pages: 230
Release: 1968
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

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Parallel latin & English texts.

Law and Love in Ovid

Law and Love in Ovid
Author: Ioannis Ziogas
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 416
Release: 2021-01-28
Genre: Literary Collections
ISBN: 0192583794

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In classical scholarship, the presence of legal language in love poetry is commonly interpreted as absurd and incongruous. Ovid's legalisms have been described as frivolous, humorous, and ornamental. Law and Love in Ovid challenges this wide-spread, but ill-informed view. Legal discourse in Latin love poetry is not incidental, but fundamental. Inspired by recent work in the interdisciplinary field of law and literature, Ioannis Ziogas argues that the Roman elegiac poets point to love as the site of law's emergence. The Latin elegiac poets may say 'make love, not law', but in order to make love, they have to make law. Drawing on Agamben, Foucault, and Butler, Law and Love in Ovid explores the juridico-discursive nature of Ovid's love poetry, constructions of sovereignty, imperialism, authority, biopolitics, and the ways in which poetic diction has the force of law. The book is methodologically ambitious, combining legal theory with historically informed closed readings of numerous primary sources. Ziogas aims to restore Ovid to his rightful position in the history of legal humanism. The Roman poet draws on a long tradition that goes back to Hesiod and Solon, in which poetic justice is pitted against corrupt rulers. Ovid's amatory jurisprudence is examined vis-à-vis Paul's letter to the Romans. The juridical nature of Ovid's poetry lies at the heart of his reception in the Middle Ages, from Boccaccio's Decameron to Forcadel's Cupido iurisperitus. The current trend to simultaneously study and marginalize legal discourse in Ovid is a modern construction that Law and Love in Ovid aims to demolish.

Ovid and His Love Poetry

Ovid and His Love Poetry
Author: Rebecca Armstrong
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 221
Release: 2015-03-02
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 1472502450

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Ovid devoted about half of his poetic career to the production of several collections of amatory verse, all composed in elegiac couplets. Indeed, his irrepressible interest in love, sex and elegiac poetry is one of the defining features of his entire output. Here Rebecca Armstrong offers a thematic examination of some important aspects of the Amores, Ars Amatoria and Remedia Amoris. Starting from an investigation of the narrator's self-creation and presentation of other characters within his amatory verse, she assesses the importance of mythical and contemporary reference, as well as the influence of the erotic on Ovid's later works. By looking at the Ars and Remedia alongside the Amores, the continuities and contradictions in the poet's elegiac outlook are revealed, and a complex picture is formed of the Ovidian world of love. Ovid's erotic works present the reader with a glimpse inside the minds of both poets and lovers, mediated through eyes which are frequently inclined to comedy and even cynicism, but always sharp, perceptive and above all fascinated by human behaviour.

Ovid and Masculinity in English Renaissance Literature

Ovid and Masculinity in English Renaissance Literature
Author: John S. Garrison
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Total Pages:
Release: 2021-01-16
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0228004535

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Ovid transformed English Renaissance literary ideas about love, erotic desire, embodiment, and gender more than any other classical poet. Ovidian concepts of femininity have been well served by modern criticism, but Ovid's impact on masculinity in Renaissance literature remains underexamined. This volume explores how English Renaissance writers shifted away from Virgilian heroic figures to embrace romantic ideals of courtship, civility, and friendship. Ovid's writing about masculinity, love, and desire shaped discourses of masculinity across a wide range of literary texts of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, including poetry, prose fiction, and drama. The book covers all major works by Ovid, in addition to Italian humanists Angelo Poliziano and Natale Conti, canonical writers such as William Shakespeare, Christopher Marlowe, Ben Jonson, Edmund Spenser, Philip Sidney, and John Milton, and lesser-known writers such as Wynkyn de Worde, Michael Drayton, Thomas Lodge, Richard Johnson, Robert Greene, John Marston, Thomas Heywood, and Francis Beaumont. Individual essays examine emasculation, abjection, pacifism, female masculinity, boys' masculinity, parody, hospitality, and protean Jewish masculinity. Ovid and Masculinity in English Renaissance Literature demonstrates how Ovid's poetry gave vigour and vitality to male voices in English literature - how his works inspired English writers to reimagine the male authorial voice, the male body, desire, and love in fresh terms.

A Student's Commentary on Ovid's Metamorphoses, Book 10

A Student's Commentary on Ovid's Metamorphoses, Book 10
Author: Shawn O'Bryhim
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 164
Release: 2021-07-12
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1119770513

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Discover a holistic perspective on Ovid's Metamorphoses Book 10 with this insightful resource. In A Student's Commentary on Ovid's Metamorphoses Book 10, Shawn O'Bryhim offers an insightful and concise examination of the literary, grammatical, and textual matters integral to Book 10 of Ovid's Metamorphoses. Expanding the scope of more traditional textbooks on Book 10, the author explores the archaeological, religious, and cultural elements of the work as it relates to Greece, Rome, and the Near East. Readers will benefit from the inclusion of: A multidisciplinary approach that examines the religious, archaeological, and cultural background of Ovid's myths A Near Eastern perspective on the material, which will allow a deeper understanding of the subject matter An exploration of the grammatical and literary components that characterize Book 10 Intended primarily for undergraduates in advanced Latin courses on Ovid, A Student's Commentary on Ovid's Metamorphoses Book 10 will also earn a place in the library of anyone who desires a broader approach to the study of Book 10 of the Metamorphoses.

Ovid

Ovid
Author: Carole E. Newlands
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 208
Release: 2015-09-02
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0857726609

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Newlands provides an extensive overview and analysis of Ovid s works."

Philosophy in Ovid, Ovid as Philosopher

Philosophy in Ovid, Ovid as Philosopher
Author: Gareth Williams
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 417
Release: 2022
Genre: Literary Collections
ISBN: 0197610331

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"This volume contains sixteen essays on various aspects of Ovid's engagement with philosophical trends and topics. Ovid has long been celebrated for the versatility of his poetic imagination, the diversity of his generic experimentation throughout his long career, and his intimate engagement with the Greco-Roman literary tradition that precedes him; but what of his engagement with the philosophical tradition? Ovid's close familiarity with philosophical ideas and with specific philosophical texts has long been recognized, perhaps most prominently in the Pythagorean, Platonic, Empedoclean, and Lucretian shades that color his Metamorphoses. This philosophical component, however, has often been perceived as a feature subordinate to Ovid's larger literary agenda; and because of the controlling influence conceded to that literary impulse, readings of the philosophical dimension have often focused on the perceived distortion, ironizing, or parodying of philosophical sources and ideas. This book counters this tendency by (i) considering Ovid's seriousness of engagement with, and his possible critique of, the philosophical writings that inform his works; (ii) questioning the feasibility of separating out the categories of the "philosophical" and the "literary" in the first place; (iii) exploring the ways in which Ovid may offer unusual, controversial, or provocative reactions to received philosophical ideas; and (iv) investigating the case to be made for viewing the Ovidian corpus not just as a body of writings that are often philosophically inflected, but also as texts that may themselves be read as philosophically adventurous and experimental"--