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Ovid, Death and Transfiguration
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The open access publication of this book has been published with the support of the Swiss National Science Foundation.
Death, the ultimate change, is an unexpected Leitmotiv of Ovid’s career and reception. The eighteen contributions collected in this volume explore the theme of death and transfiguration in Ovid’s own career and his posthumous reception, revealing a unity in diversity that has not been appreciated in these terms before now.
Death, the ultimate change, is an unexpected Leitmotiv of Ovid’s career and reception. The eighteen contributions collected in this volume explore the theme of death and transfiguration in Ovid’s own career and his posthumous reception, revealing a unity in diversity that has not been appreciated in these terms before now.
Joseph Farrell is Professor of Classical Studies at the University of Pennsylvania, where he has taught since 1984. He has published a number of articles and monographs on classical Latin literature, including most recently Juno's Aeneid: A Battle for Heroic Identity (Princeton 2021).
John F. Miller is Arthur F. and Marian W. Stocker Professor of Classics at the University of Virginia. He has published widely in the area of Latin literature, including Apollo, Augustus, and the Poets (Cambridge 2009), and has edited several collaborative volumes, most recently (with Jenny Strauss Clay), Tracking Hermes, Pursuing Mercury (Oxford 2019).
Damien P. Nelis is Professor of Latin at the University of Geneva. He is currently preparing a digital edition of the Achilleid of Statius and is writing a book on Vergil’s Georgics.
Alessandro Schiesaro is Professor of Latin Literature at the Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa. He has published work on several Roman authors, including Lucretius, Virgil, Horace, Ovid and Seneca.
Contributors are: Bettina Bergmann, Francesca Romana Berno, Alessandro Betori, Emma Buckley, Elena Calandra, Sergio Casali, Jacqueline Fabre-Serris, Laurel Fulkerson, Luigi Galasso, Philip Hardie, Stephen Hinds, A.M. Keith, Florence Klein, Giuseppe La Bua, Alison Sharrock, Thea Selliaas Thorsen, Francesco Ursini, Katharina Volk, Anke Walter.
John F. Miller is Arthur F. and Marian W. Stocker Professor of Classics at the University of Virginia. He has published widely in the area of Latin literature, including Apollo, Augustus, and the Poets (Cambridge 2009), and has edited several collaborative volumes, most recently (with Jenny Strauss Clay), Tracking Hermes, Pursuing Mercury (Oxford 2019).
Damien P. Nelis is Professor of Latin at the University of Geneva. He is currently preparing a digital edition of the Achilleid of Statius and is writing a book on Vergil’s Georgics.
Alessandro Schiesaro is Professor of Latin Literature at the Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa. He has published work on several Roman authors, including Lucretius, Virgil, Horace, Ovid and Seneca.
Contributors are: Bettina Bergmann, Francesca Romana Berno, Alessandro Betori, Emma Buckley, Elena Calandra, Sergio Casali, Jacqueline Fabre-Serris, Laurel Fulkerson, Luigi Galasso, Philip Hardie, Stephen Hinds, A.M. Keith, Florence Klein, Giuseppe La Bua, Alison Sharrock, Thea Selliaas Thorsen, Francesco Ursini, Katharina Volk, Anke Walter.
Acknowledgements
List of Figures
Introduction: Ovid, Death and Transfiguration
1 Death, Lament, and “Elegiac Aetiology” in Ovid’s Metamorphoses
Anke Walter
2 Duo moriemur: Death and Doubling in Ovid’s Metamorphoses
Florence Klein
3 Ovid’s Artistic Transfiguration, Procris and Cephalus
Thea Thorsen
4 Suicides for Love, Phyllis, Dido, Pyramus and Thisbe: Critical Variations on a Famous Motif of Erotic Poetry?
Jacqueline Fabre-Serris
5 Ovidian Pathology, in Love and in Exile
Laurel Fulkerson
6 Frigid Landscapes and Literary Frigidity in Ovid’s Exile Poetry
A.M. Keith
7 Fantasies of Death in Ovid’s Poetry of Exile
Luigi Galasso
8 Seeing and Knowing in Roman Painting
Bettina Bergmann
9 The Niobids and the Augustan Age: On Some Recent Discoveries at Ciampino (Rome)
Alessandro Betori and Elena Calandra
10 Ambobus pellite regnis: Between Life and Death in Ovid’s Metamorphoses
Alison Sharrock
11 Ovid’s Exile Poetry and Zombies
Stephen Hinds
12 C.H. Sisson’s Metamorphoses and the “New Age of Ovid”
Francesco Ursini
13 Reviving the Dead: Ovid in Early Modern England
Emma Buckley
14 From Chaos to Chaos: Janus in Fasti 1 and the Gates of War
Francesca Romana Berno
15 Intertextuality, Parody, and Immortality of Poetry: Petronius and Ovid
Giuseppe La Bua
16 Tod und Erklärung: Ovid on the Death of Julius Caesar (Met. 15.745–851)
Katharina Volk
17 The Books of Fate: The Venus-Jupiter Scene in Ovid’s Metamorphoses 15 and Its Epic Models
Sergio Casali
18 Apotheoses of the Poet
Philip Hardie
Index
List of Figures
Introduction: Ovid, Death and Transfiguration
Part 1 Death and the Lover
1 Death, Lament, and “Elegiac Aetiology” in Ovid’s Metamorphoses
Anke Walter
2 Duo moriemur: Death and Doubling in Ovid’s Metamorphoses
Florence Klein
3 Ovid’s Artistic Transfiguration, Procris and Cephalus
Thea Thorsen
4 Suicides for Love, Phyllis, Dido, Pyramus and Thisbe: Critical Variations on a Famous Motif of Erotic Poetry?
Jacqueline Fabre-Serris
5 Ovidian Pathology, in Love and in Exile
Laurel Fulkerson
Part 2 Death and the Artist
6 Frigid Landscapes and Literary Frigidity in Ovid’s Exile Poetry
A.M. Keith
7 Fantasies of Death in Ovid’s Poetry of Exile
Luigi Galasso
8 Seeing and Knowing in Roman Painting
Bettina Bergmann
9 The Niobids and the Augustan Age: On Some Recent Discoveries at Ciampino (Rome)
Alessandro Betori and Elena Calandra
Part 3 Revenants and Undead
10 Ambobus pellite regnis: Between Life and Death in Ovid’s Metamorphoses
Alison Sharrock
11 Ovid’s Exile Poetry and Zombies
Stephen Hinds
12 C.H. Sisson’s Metamorphoses and the “New Age of Ovid”
Francesco Ursini
13 Reviving the Dead: Ovid in Early Modern England
Emma Buckley
Part 4 Immortals and Others
14 From Chaos to Chaos: Janus in Fasti 1 and the Gates of War
Francesca Romana Berno
15 Intertextuality, Parody, and Immortality of Poetry: Petronius and Ovid
Giuseppe La Bua
16 Tod und Erklärung: Ovid on the Death of Julius Caesar (Met. 15.745–851)
Katharina Volk
17 The Books of Fate: The Venus-Jupiter Scene in Ovid’s Metamorphoses 15 and Its Epic Models
Sergio Casali
18 Apotheoses of the Poet
Philip Hardie
Index
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