An Ovid Reader

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An Ovid Reader
Selections from Six Works
Carole E. Newlands

(forthcoming) 5” x 7.75” Paperback
ISBN 978-0-86516-722-3

Ovid (43 bce–17 ce), a major Roman poet of the Augustan age who is particularly known for his love poetry and his epic masterpiece the Metamorphoses, has received major reassessment in the twentieth century. Once regarded as superficial in comparison to the other Augustan poets (e.g. Quint. Inst. 10.1.93), particularly Vergil, critics now recognize Ovid as an artistically and psychologically complex writer who has had tremendous influence on European literature and art.

This reader introduces advanced students of Latin to the wide range of Ovid’s poetry composed during the Augustan age in ancient Rome and in exile on the Black Sea. It offers selections (556 lines total) from six of Ovid’s works: Amores, Heroides, Ars Amatoria, Metamorphoses, Fasti,and Tristia. The selections introduce major themes of Ovid’s love poetry and reveal the richly allusive nature of his verse, the boldness of his experiments with genre, his fondness for witticisms and punning, as well as for provocative erotic and political play.

Selections include: Amores 1.1.1–4, 1.6.27–40, 1.9.1–20, 1.13.1–24, 47–8, 2.15.1–26; Heroides 3.1–4, 113–120, 5.61–88, 7.181–96; Ars Amatoria 1.1–4, 17–34, 1.89–102, 1.505–524, 3.329–48; Metamorphoses 1.168–88, 2.227–34, 272–84, 3.93–127, 3.402–17, 3.173–198, 5.585–600, 10.270–94, 13.764–69, 838–53, 15.75–95, 15.871–79; Fasti 1.89–102, 2.813–836, 4.305–328, 5.193–212; Tristia 1.7.15–30, 4.6.1–18, 4.10.1–2 , 17–26, 41–66.

A general introduction to Ovid is also included, along with accompanying notes and vocabulary for the Latin texts and a complete end vocabulary.

FEATURES:
Introduction that situates Ovid in his literary and historical context
556 lines of Latin text from from six of Ovid’s works: Amores, Heroides, Ars Amatoria, Metamorphoses, Fasti,and Tristia
Notes at the back
Bibliography
Complete Vocabulary

Carole Newlands’ current principal areas of research are Augustan and post Augustan poetry; she has also strong interests in late Antique and Medieval poetry, in Roman and medieval art, and in the reception of classical texts. Her first book was on Ovid’s Fasti: Playing with Time: Ovid and the Fasti (Cornell University Press 1995), and she continues to publish on Ovid’s poetry. Her recent work is on Statius: a monograph Statius Siluae and the Poetics of Empire (Cambridge 2002), a commentary on Siluae Book 2 currently reaching completion for the Cambridge Greek and Latin series, and a book on Statius for Duckworth’s Literature and Society series. She is co-editing with William J. Dominik the Brill Companion to Statius. Her interest in reception led to an article on the first translation of Ovid’s Fasti (Hermathena) and to work in progress on the later appropriations of Ovid, Lucan, and Statius.