Explores the previously neglected influence on Ovid's Metamorphoses of Hesiod, the most important archaic Greek poet after Homer.[...]
This comprehensive study establishes the importance of an unexpected genre, tragedy, in the career of the most mercurial Western poet.[...]
Scrutinizes Ovid's tendency to edit his major works and advertise their revised status, a distinctive feature of his literary career.[...]
Ovid is perhaps the most important surviving Latin poet and his work has influenced writers throughout the world to the present day. This volume presents a groundbreaking series of essays on his reception across in the Middle Ages. The collection includes contributions from distinguished Ovidians as[...]
This 1881 edition of Ovid's little-known invective poem, edited by classical scholar Robinson Ellis (1834-1913), illuminates nineteenth-century scholarly traditions.[...]
Published in 1951, this is an exhaustive study of the versification of the great Latin elegists of the Augustan age.[...]
Everything beginners need to start programming with PerlPerl is the ever-popular, flexible, open source programming language that has been called the programmers' Swiss army knife. This book introduces Perl to both new programmers and experienced ones who are looking to learn a new language. In the [...]
This volume features more than 30 newly commissioned essays by noted scholars writing on various aspects of Ovid's work, such as production, genre, and style. It presents interpretive essays on key poems and collections of poems and includes detailed discussions of Ovid's primary literary influence[...]
Perhaps no other classical text has proved its versatility so much as Ovid's epic poem. A staple of undergraduate courses in Classical Studies, Latin, English and Comparative Literature, Metamorphoses is arguably one of the most important, canonical Latin texts and certainly among the most widely re[...]
The "Medicamina Faciei Femineae" is a didactic elegy that showcases an early example of Ovid's trademark combination of poetic instruction and trivial subject matter. Exploring female beauty and cosmeceuticals, with particular emphasis on the concept of cultus, the poem presents five practical recip[...]