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A Handbook to the Reception of Ovid presents more than 30original essays written by leading scholars revealing the richdiversity of critical engagement with Ovid's poetry thatspans the Western tradition from antiquity to the presentday.
Offers innovative perspectives on Ovid's poetry and itsreception from antiquity to the present day Features contributions from more than 30 leading scholars inthe Humanities. Introduces familiar and unfamiliar figures in the history ofOvidian reception. Demonstrates the enduring and transformative power ofOvid's poetry into modern times.

Produktbeschreibung
A Handbook to the Reception of Ovid presents more than 30original essays written by leading scholars revealing the richdiversity of critical engagement with Ovid's poetry thatspans the Western tradition from antiquity to the presentday.

Offers innovative perspectives on Ovid's poetry and itsreception from antiquity to the present day
Features contributions from more than 30 leading scholars inthe Humanities.
Introduces familiar and unfamiliar figures in the history ofOvidian reception.
Demonstrates the enduring and transformative power ofOvid's poetry into modern times.
Autorenporträt
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).
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"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)