Oxford Readings in Ovid

Peter E. Knox is Professor of Classics, University of Colorado.

• Introduction: Horizons in Ovidian Scholarship ; CONTEXTS AND INTERTEXTS ; 1. Generalizing about Ovid ; 2. Playing with his Life: Ovid's Autobiographical References ; 3. The Epistolary Mode and the First of Ovid's Heroides ; 4. Ovidian Allusion and the Vocabulary of Memory ; 5. Vergil's Best Reader? Ovidian Commentary on Vergilian Etymological Wordplay ; 6. Lucretius and the Delusions of Narcissus ; 7. Other Voices in Ovid's 'Aeneid' ; IDEOLOGIES OF LOVE AND POETRY ; 8. Reading Female Flesh: Amores 3.1 ; 9. The Death of Corinna's Parrot Reconsidered: Poetry and Ovid's Amores ; 10. Fantasy, Myth, and Love Letters: Text and Tale in Ovid's Heroides ; 11. Ovid and the Politics of Reading ; NARRATORS AND NARRATIVES ; 12. Ovidius Prooemians ; 13. Voices and Narrative 'Instances' in the Metamorphoses ; 14. Pyramus and Thisbe in Cyprus ; 15. Form in Motion: Weaving the Text in the Metamorphoses ; 16. Ovid's Narrator in the Fasti ; ON THE MARGINS OF EMPIRE ; 17. Ovid, Germanicus, and the Composition of the Fasti ; 18. Booking the Return Trip ; 19. On Ovid's Ibis: A Poem in Context ; 20. Si licet et fas est: Ovid's Fasti and the Problem of Free Speech under the Principate

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