Peter E. Knox 
A Companion to Ovid 

A Companion to Ovid is a comprehensive overview of one of
the most influential poets of classical antiquity.

* Features more than 30 newly commissioned chapters by noted
scholars writing in their areas of specialization

* Illuminates various aspects of Ovid’s work, such as production,
genre, and style

* Presents interpretive essays on key poems and collections of
poems

* Includes detailed discussions of Ovid’s primary literary
influences and his reception in English literature

* Provides a chronology of key literary and historical events
during Ovid’s lifetime

Table des matières

List of Figures viii

Notes on Contributors ix

Preface xiv

List of Abbreviations xv

Chronological Table xvii

Part I Contexts 1

1. A Poet’s Life 3

Peter E. Knox

2. Poetry in Augustan Rome 8

Mario Citroni

3. Rhetoric and Ovid’s Poetry 26

Elaine Fantham

4. Ovid and Religion 45

Julia Dyson Hejduk

Part II Texts 59

5. The Amores: Ovid Making Love 61

Joan Booth

6. The Heroides: Female Elegy? 78

Laurel Fulkerson

7. The Ars Amatoria 90

Roy K. Gibson

8. Remedia Amoris 104

Barbara Weiden Boyd

9. Fasti: The Poet, The Prince, and the Plebs 120

Geraldine Herbert-Brown

10. The Metamorphoses: A Poet’s Poem 140

E. J. Kenney

11. The Metamorphoses: Politics and Narrative 154

Gareth D. Williams

12. Tristia 170

Jo-Marie Claassen

13. Ibis 184

Martin Helzle

14. Epistulae ex Ponto 194

Luigi Galasso

15. Lost and Spurious Works 207

Peter E. Knox

Part III Intertexts 217

16. Ovid and Hellenistic Poetry 219

Jane L. Lightfoot

17. Ovid and Callimachus: Rewriting the Master 236

Benjamin Acosta-Hughes

18. Ovid’s Catullus and the Neoteric Moment in Roman
Poetry 252

David Wray

19. Propertius and Ovid 265

S. J. Heyworth

20. Tibullus and Ovid 279

Robert Maltby

21. Ovid’s Reception of Virgil 294

Richard F. Thomas

Part IV Critical and Scholarly Approaches 309

22. Editing Ovid: Immortal Works and Material Texts 311

Mark Possanza

23. Commenting on Ovid 327

Peter E. Knox

24. Ovidian Intertextuality 341

Sergio Casali

25. Sexuality and Gender 355

Alison Keith

26. Ovid’s Generic Transformations 370

Joseph Farrell

27. Theorizing Ovid 381

Efrossini Spentzou

Part V Literary Receptions 395

28. Ovidian Strategies in Early Imperial Literature 397

Charles Mc Nelis

29. The Medieval Ovid 411

John M. Fyler

30. Ovid in Renaissance English Literature 423

Heather James

31. Ovid and Shakespeare 442

Gordon Braden

32. Ovid in the Twentieth Century 455

Theodore Ziolkowski

33. Translating Ovid 469

Christopher Martin

Bibliography 485

Index 516

A propos de l’auteur

Peter E. Knox is Professor of Classics at the University of Colorado. His publications include Ovid’s Metamorphoses and the Traditions of Augustan Poetry (1986) and Ovid, Heroides: Select Epistles (1995), as well as many articles on a wide range of topics in Greek and Roman literature.