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. StockerProfessor of Classics and Chair of the Department of Classics atthe University of Virginia. His publications include Apollo,Augustus, and the Poets (2009) and Ovid s ElegiacFestivals: Studies in the Fasti (1991). Carole Newlands is Professor of Classics at theUniversity of Colorado Boulder. Her publications includeStatius: Poet between Rome and Naples (2012); Statius,Siluae 2, A Commentary (2011); Statius Siluae and thePoetics of Empire (2002); Playing with Time: Ovid and theFasti (1995).

Reviews

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 newHandbookis highly recommended as a scholarly introduction to thereception of Ovid. (Eighteenth-century Studies andEighteenth-century Literature, 1 October 2014)