A Handbook to the Reception of Ovid: (Wiley Blackwell Handbooks to Classical Reception)

A Handbook to the Reception of Ovid presents more than 30 original essays written by leading scholars revealing the rich diversity of critical engagement with Ovid’s poetry that spans the Western tradition from antiquity to the present day.  Offers innovative perspectives on Ovid’s poetry and its reception from antiquity to the present day Features contributions from more than 30 leading scholars in the Humanities. Introduces familiar and unfamiliar figures in the history of Ovidian reception. Demonstrates the enduring and transformative power of Ovid’s poetry into modern times.

Table of Contents:
Illustrations ix Notes on Contributors xi Acknowledgments xvii Introduction 1 Carole E. Newlands and John F. Miller 1 Ovid’s Self-Reception in His Exile Poetry 8 K. Sara Myers 2 Modeling Reception in Metamorphoses: Ovid’s Epic Cyclops 22 Andrew Feldherr 3 Ovidian Myths on PompeianWalls 36 Peter E. Knox 4 Ovid in Flavian Occasional Poetry (Martial and Statius) 55 Gianpiero Rosati 5 Poetae Ovidiani: Ovid’s Metamorphoses in Imperial Roman Epic 70 Alison Keith 6 Ovid in Apuleius’ Metamorphoses 86 Stephen Harrison 7 A Poet between TwoWorlds: Ovid in Late Antiquity 100 Ian Fielding 8 Commentary and Collaboration in the Medieval Allegorical Tradition 114 Jamie C. Fumo 9 The Mythographic Tradition after Ovid 129 Gregory Hays 10 Ovid’s Exile and Medieval Italian Literature: The Lyric Tradition 144 Catherine Keen 11 Venus’s Clerk: Ovid’s Amatory Poetry in the Middle Ages 161 Marilynn Desmond 12 The Metamorphosis of Ovid in Dante’s Divine Comedy 174 Diskin Clay 13 Ovid in Chaucer and Gower 187 Andrew Galloway 14 Ovid’s Metamorphoses and the History of Baroque Art 202 Paul Barolsky 15 The Poetics of Time: The Fasti in the Renaissance 217 Maggie Kilgour 16 Shakespeare and Ovid 232 Sean Keilen 17 Ben Jonson’s Light Reading 246 Heather James 18 Love Poems in Sequence: The Amores from Petrarch to Goethe 262 Gordon Braden 19 Don Quixote as Ovidian Text 277 Frederick A. de Armas 20 Spenser and Ovid 291 Philip Hardie 21 Ovidian Intertextuality in Ariosto’s Orlando Furioso 306 Sergio Casali 22 “Joy and Harmles Pastime”: Milton and the Ovidian Arts of Leisure 324 Mandy Green 23 Ovid Translated: Early Modern Versions of the Metamorphoses 339 Dan Hooley 24 Ovid in Restoration and Eighteenth-Century England 355 James M. Horowitz 25 The Influence of Ovid in Opera 371 Jon Solomon 26 Ovid in Germany 386 Theodore Ziolkowski 27 Ovid and Russia’s Poets of Exile 401 Andrew Kahn 28 Alter-Ovid—Contemporary Art on the Hyphen 416 Jill H. Casid 29 Contemporary Poetry: After After Ovid 436 Sarah Annes Brown 30 Ovid’s “Biography”: Novels of Ovid’s Exile 454 Rainer Godel 31 Ovid and the Cinema: An Introduction 469 Martin M.Winkler Index 485

About the Author :
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).

Review :
“The multi-authored Handbook to the Reception of Ovidis far more wide-ranging, and considers the whole field of Ovidian influence on literature, education, the visual arts, and film, from antiquity to the present day.” (Translation and Literature, 1 May 2015) “While readers will also want to consult works by Doody (1985), Hopkins (2010), Oakley-Brown (2006) and Martindale (1988) — among many others, too numerous to list — this new Handbookis highly recommended as a scholarly introduction to the reception of Ovid.”  (Eighteenth-century Studies and Eighteenth-century Literature, 1 October 2014)