A Companion to Ovid

Part I. Literary Backgrounds

1. Hellenistic Poetry and Ovid Jane Lightfoot (New College, Oxford)

2. Callimachus and Ovid Benjamin Acosta-Hughes (Angell Hall, Ann Arbor)

3. Ovid and the Neoterics David Wray (University of Chicago)

4. Propertius and Ovid James Butrica (Memorial University, Canada)

5. Tibullus and Ovid Robert Maltby (University of Leeds)

6. Virgil and Ovid Richard Thomas (Harvard)

Part II. Contexts

7. Ovid and Religion Julia Dyson (Baylor University, Texas)

8. Ovid and Myth Alan Cameron (New York)

9. Augustan Rome Mario Citroni (Universita degli Studi di Firenze)

10. Rhetoric and Rhetorical Theory Elaine Fantham (Toronto)

Part III. Texts

11. Heroides - Laurel Fulkerson (Florida State University)

12. Ars Amatoria Roy K. Gibson (University of Manchester)

13. Remedia Amoris Barbara Weiden Boyd (Maine)

14. Fasti Geraldine Herbert-Brown (Macquarie University, Australia)

15. Metamorphoses Gareth D. Williams (Columbia University)

16. Lost works Peter Knox (University of Colorado)

17. Tristia Jo-Marie Claasen (Stellenbosch, South Africa)

18. Epistulae ex Ponto Luigi Galasso (Universita degli Studi di Pavia)

19. Ibis Martin Helzle (Case West Reserve University, Ohio)

Part IV. Critical Approaches

20. Editing Ovid Mark Possanza (University of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania)

21. Commentaries Peter Knox (Univeristy of Colorado)

22. Intertextuality Sergio Casali (Universita degli Studi di Roma Tor Vergata)

23. Sexuality and Gender Alison Keith (University of Toronto)

24. Genre Joseph Farrell (University of Pennsylvania)

25. Theorizing Ovid Efrossini Spentzou (University of London)

Part V. Reception

26. Ovid in Antiquity Charles McNelis (University of London)

27. Ovid and the Middle Ages John Fyler (Tufts University, Medford USA)

28. Ovid in the Renaissance Heather James (University of Southern California)

29. Ovid and Shakespeare Gordon Braden (University of Virginia)

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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.

"The result is something quite extraordinary, a coherent and engaging treatment of the full corpus of Ovid's writing in just under 130 pages . . . V. has produced an eminently readable, highly engaging introduction to Ovid, one that speaks to exactly the audience she had envisaged, in a voice both accessible and smart." ( The Classical Review , 1 October 2012)

"Aimed at the general reading public and at newcomers to Ovid, her book is also a delight for experienced Ovidian scholars, providing an engaging, attractive, and thoughtful overview of the poet and his works that shows why his oeuvre remains intellectually valuable as well as an enjoyable read. Fluent and accessible, the volume covers a great deal of ground with lightness of foot. Volk takes a thematic approach that cuts across individual works in productive ways, but the simple titles of the chapters - 'Work', 'Life', 'Elegy', 'Myth', 'Art', 'Women', 'Rome', 'Reception' - do not adequately convey a sense of the treasures that lie within their pages." ( Greece & Rome , 1 October 2012)