A Handbook to the Reception of Ovid

A Handbook to the Reception of Ovid presents a series of essays revealing the rich diversity and vitality of critical engagement with Ovid’s poetry taking place from antiquity to the present day. Featuring contributions from more than 30 leading experts, readings cover a broad sweep of Ovidian reception while addressing the celebrated Roman poet’s manifold impact on literature, art, music and film over the past two millennia. While the influence of Ovid’s Metamorphoses is paramount, serious attention is also paid to the ways that authors and artists have engaged with his other major works—from Ovid’s collections of elegiac love poems and fictional letters of mythological heroines to his emotive poetry of exile. Collectively, essays reveal the myriad ways that Ovid’s works have been interpreted, rewritten, critiqued, adapted, translated, and metamorphosed through various time periods and cultures. Utilizing a wide range of critical and comparative approaches, A Handbook to the Reception of Ovid vividly illustrates Ovid’s enduring importance to Western culture—and sheds important new light on arguably the most influential poet of Latin antiquity.

Illustrations Notes on Contributors Preface Introduction Carole E. Newlands and John F. Miller   Chapter 1 Ovid’s Self–Reception in his Exile Poetry K. Sara Myers   Chapter 2 Modeling Reception in Ovid’s Metamorphoses : Ovid’s Epic Cyclops Andrew Feldherr   Chapter 3 Ovidian Myths on Pompeiian Walls Peter E. Knox   Chapter 4 Ovid in Flavian Occasional Poetry (Martial and Statius) Gianpiero Rosati   Chapter 5 Poetae Ovidiani : Ovid’s  Metamorphoses in Imperial Roman Epic Alison Keith   Chapter  6 Ovid in Apuleius’ Metamorphoses S. J. Harrison   Chapter  7 A Poet Between Two Worlds: Ovid in Late Antiquity Ian Fielding   Chapter  8 Commentary and Collaboration in the Medieval Allegorical Tradition Jamie C. Fumo   Chapter  9 The Mythographic Tradition after Ovid Gregory Hays   Chapter  10 Ovid’s Exile and Medieval Italian Literature: The Lyric Tradition Catherine Keen   Chapter  11 Venus’s Clerk: Ovid’s Amatory Poetry in the Middle Ages Marilynn Desmond   Chapter  12 The Metamorphosis of Ovid in Dante’s Divine Comedy  Diskin Clay   Chapter  13 Ovid in Chaucer and Gower Andrew Galloway   Chapter  14 Ovid’s Metamorphoses and the History of Baroque Art Paul Barolsky   Chapter  15 The Poetics of Time: The  Fasti in the Renaissance Maggie Kilgour   Chapter  16 Shakespeare and Ovid Sean Keilen   Chapter  17 Ben Jonson’s Light Reading Heather James   Chapter  18 Love Poems in Sequence: The Amores from Petrarch to Goethe Gordon Braden   Chapter  19 Don Quixote as Ovidian Text Frederick A. de Armas   Chapter  20 Spenser and Ovid Philip Hardie   Chapter  21 Ovidian Intertextuality in Ariosto’s Orlando Furioso Sergio Casali   Chapter  22 “Joy and Harmless Pastime”: Milton and the Ovidian Arts of Leisure Mandy Green   Chapter  23 Ovid Translated: Early Modern Versions of the Metamorphoses Dan Hooley   Chapter  24 Ovid in Restoration and Eighteenth­–Century England James M. Horowitz   Chapter  25 The Influence of Ovid in Opera Jon Solomon   Chapter  26 Ovid in Germany Theodore Ziolkowski   Chapter  27 Ovid and Russia’s Poets of Exile Andrew Kahn   Chapter  28 Alter­–Ovid—Contemporary Art on the Hyphen Jill H. Casid   Chapter  29 Contemporary Poetry: After After Ovid Sarah Annes Brown   Chapter  30 Ovid’s ‘Biography.’ Novels of Ovid’s Exile Rainer Godel   Chapter  31 Ovid and the Cinema: An Introduction Martin M. Winkler   Index  

John F. Miller is the Arthur F. and Marian W. Stocker Professor of Classics and Chair of the Department of Classics at the University of Virginia. His publications include Apollo, Augustus, and the Poets (2009) and Ovid’s Elegiac Festivals: Studies in the Fasti (1991). Carole Newlands is Professor of Classics at the University of Colorado Boulder. Her publications include Statius: Poet between Rome and Naples (2012); Statius, Siluae 2, A Commentary (2011); Statius’ Siluae and the Poetics of Empire (2002); Playing with Time: Ovid and the Fasti (1995).