List of Figures viii
Preface ix
Abbreviations for Ovid’s Works xi
Introduction 1
1 Work 6
2 Life 20
3 Elegy 35
4 Myth 50
5 Art 65
6 Women 81
7 Rome 95
8 Reception 110
Further Reading 128
Notes 141
Ovidian Passages Cited 142
Index 145
Katharina Volk is Associate Professor of Classics at Columbia University. She is the author of The Poetics of Latin Didactic: Lucretius, Vergil, Ovid, Manilius (2002) and Manilius and his Intellectual Background (2009) and the editor of Seeing Seneca Whole: Perspectives on Philosophy, Poetry and Politics (with Gareth D. Williams, 2006), Oxford Readings in Classical Studies: Vergil's Eclogues (2008), and Oxford Readings in Classical Studies: Vergil's Georgics (2008).
The past few years have seen several new translations of[Ovid s] work appear and a few acute scholarly studies, too.Among the more accessible of the latter category is KatharinaVolk s introduction to Ovid Volk, a professor ofclassics at Columbia and the new editor of The Transactions of theAmerican Philological Association,is about as high a star in theAmerican academic firmament as one might find. Her tone is devoidof the jargon and pretense by which many an Ovidian monograph ismarred. After concise initial chapters on the poet s work andlife, we find sensible discussions on elegy, women, and Rome, aswell as a selective survey of Ovid s subsequent reception inWestern art and literature. (Sewanee Review,2012) " ...the book is truly first-class. It will, I believe, becomeinvaluable for any course in which Ovid is a central component..."(BMCR, 6 February 2012) "Katharina Volk's Ovid is a wonderfully deft and spiritedintroduction to the whole of the poet's oeuvre, covering aremarkable amount of ground in just under 150 pages ." (TimesLiterary Supplement, 16 September 2011) "That quibble aside, this is an admirable book, suitable as bothan up-to-date introduction for tyros and as a refreshing overviewof matters Ovidian for advanced scholars." (Acta Classica,1December 2011)
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