A COMPANION TO OVID A Companion to Ovid Edited by Peter E. Knox © 2009 Blackwell Publishing Ltd. ISBN 978-1-405-14183-3 A COMPANION TO OVID Edited by Peter E. Knox A John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., Publication This edition fi rst published 2009 © 2009 Blackwell Publishing Ltd Blackwell Publishing was acquired by John Wiley & Sons in February 2007. Blackwell’s publishing program has been merged with Wiley’s global Scientifi c, Technical, and Medical business to form Wiley-Blackwell. Registered Offi ce John Wiley & Sons Ltd, The Atrium, Southern Gate, Chichester, West Sussex, PO19 8SQ, United Kingdom Editorial Offi ces 350 Main Street, Malden, MA 02148-5020, USA 9600 Garsington Road, Oxford, OX4 2DQ, UK The Atrium, Southern Gate, Chichester, West Sussex, PO19 8SQ, UK For details of our global editorial offi ces, for customer services, and for information about how to apply for permission to reuse the copyright material in this book please see our website at www.wiley.com/wiley-blackwell. 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PA6537.C57 2009 871′.01–dc22 2008041557 A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. Set in 10/12.5 pt Galliard by SNP Bestset Typesetter Ltd., Hong Kong Printed in Singapore by Fabulous Printers Pte Ltd 01 2009 Contents List of Figures viii Notes on Contributors ix Preface xiv List of Abbreviations xv Chronological Table xvii Part I Contexts 1 1. A Poet’s Life 3 Peter E. Knox 2. Poetry in Augustan Rome 8 Mario Citroni 3. Rhetoric and Ovid’s Poetry 26 Elaine Fantham 4. Ovid and Religion 45 Julia Dyson Hejduk Part II Texts 59 5. The Amores: Ovid Making Love 61 Joan Booth 6. The Heroides: Female Elegy? 78 Laurel Fulkerson 7. The Ars Amatoria 90 Roy K. Gibson vi Contents 8. Remedia Amoris 104 Barbara Weiden Boyd 9. Fasti: The Poet, The Prince, and the Plebs 120 Geraldine Herbert-Brown 10. The Metamorphoses: A Poet’s Poem 140 E. J. Kenney 11. The Metamorphoses: Politics and Narrative 154 Gareth D. Williams 12. Tristia 170 Jo-Marie Claassen 13. Ibis 184 Martin Helzle 14. Epistulae ex Ponto 194 Luigi Galasso 15. Lost and Spurious Works 207 Peter E. Knox Part III Intertexts 217 16. Ovid and Hellenistic Poetry 219 Jane L. Lightfoot 17. Ovid and Callimachus: Rewriting the Master 236 Benjamin Acosta-Hughes 18. Ovid’s Catullus and the Neoteric Moment in Roman Poetry 252 David Wray 19. Propertius and Ovid 265 S. J. Heyworth 20. Tibullus and Ovid 279 Robert Maltby 21. Ovid’s Reception of Virgil 294 Richard F. Thomas Part IV Critical and Scholarly Approaches 309 22. Editing Ovid: Immortal Works and Material Texts 311 Mark Possanza 23. Commenting on Ovid 327 Peter E. Knox Contents vii 24. Ovidian Intertextuality 341 Sergio Casali 25. Sexuality and Gender 355 Alison Keith 26. Ovid’s Generic Transformations 370 Joseph Farrell 27. Theorizing Ovid 381 Efrossini Spentzou Part V Literary Receptions 395 28. Ovidian Strategies in Early Imperial Literature 397 Charles McNelis 29. The Medieval Ovid 411 John M. Fyler 30. Ovid in Renaissance English Literature 423 Heather James 31. Ovid and Shakespeare 442 Gordon Braden 32. Ovid in the Twentieth Century 455 Theodore Ziolkowski 33. Translating Ovid 469 Christopher Martin Bibliography 485 Index 516 Figures 1 The Fasti Amiternini 125 2 ‘St. Dunstan’s Classbook’ 315 3 A fragment of the Metamorphoses 316 4 A medieval commentary 329 5 Regius’ commentary 336 6 John Lyly’s Euphues 426 7 Phaedra in a Renaissance translation 435 8 The ‘Flores of Ovide’ 472 9 Golding’s Metamorphoses 475 10 Sandys’ Metamorphoses 476 Notes on Contributors Benjamin Acosta-Hughes is Associate Professor of Greek and Latin and Compara- tive Literature at the University of Michigan. He works primarily on Hellenistic poetry, its reception of Archaic lyric, and its recall in Roman literature. He is currently editing a Loeb Library edition of Hellenistic epigrams. Joan Booth is Professor of Latin Language and Literature at Leiden University in the Netherlands. She is the author of a commentary on Ovid, Amores II (1991), and of Catullus to Ovid: Reading Latin Love Elegy (1999). She is also co-editor (with Robert Maltby) of What’s in a Name? The Signifi cance of Proper Names in Classical Latin Literature (2006) and editor of Cicero on the Attack: Invective and Subversion in the Orations and Beyond (2007). Barbara Weiden Boyd is Henry Winkley Professor of Latin and Greek at Bowdoin College. She is the author of Ovid’s Literary Loves: Infl uence and Innovation in the Amores (1997), and editor of Brill’s Companion to Ovid (2002). She is currently writing a commentary on the Remedia Amoris. Gordon Braden is Linden Kent Memorial Professor of English at the University of Virginia. He is the author of The Classics and English Renaissance Poetry (1978), Renaissance Tragedy and the Senecan Tradition (1985), The Idea of the Renais- sance (with William Kerrigan, 1989), Petrarchan Love and the Continental Renais- sance (1999), editor of Sixteenth-Century Poetry: An Annotated Anthology (2004), and co-editor of Vol. 2 of The Oxford History of Literary Translation in English (forthcoming). Sergio Casali is Associate Professor of Latin at the University of Rome ‘Tor Vergata’. He has published a commentary on Ovid, Her. 9 (1995), and articles, notes, and reviews on Roman poetry. He is currently working on a commentary on Virgil, Aeneid IV, for the Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics series. A commentary in Italian on Aeneid II is also forthcoming. x Notes on Contributors Mario Citroni teaches at the University of Florence. His numerous publications on Latin poetry include a commentary on Book 1 of Martial (1975), Poesia e Lettori in Roma Antica (1995), and the edited volume Memoria e identità: la cultura romana costruisce la sua immagine (2003). Jo-Marie Claassen has retired from teaching Classics at the University of Stellen- bosch. She has published on Ovid and Cicero, exile in the ancient world and today, women and children in antiquity, the Classical tradition in South African architecture, academic development, and the use of the computer in the teaching of Latin. She recently completed an English translation of the verse drama Germanicus by the Afrikaans poet N. P. Van Wyk Louw. Elaine Fantham taught for eighteen years at the University of Toronto before moving to Princeton in 1986 as Giger Professor of Latin. She is author of a com- mentary on Ovid’s Fasti, Book 4 (1998) and a number of articles on the Fasti. Since her retirement in 2000 she has continued teaching and publishing, most recently The Roman World of Cicero’s De Oratore (2004), An Introduction to Ovid’s Metamorphoses (2004), and a biography of Julia, daughter of Augustus, Julia Augusti (2006). Joseph Farrell, Professor of Classical Studies at the University of Pennsylvania, is the author of Virgil’s Georgics and the Traditions of Ancient Epic (1991) and has pub- lished widely on Augustan poetry and other aspects of Latin literature and culture. Laurel Fulkerson is Associate Professor of Classics at the Florida State University. She has written various articles on Ovid, particularly on the Heroides, and is the author of The Ovidian Heroine as Author: Reading, Writing, and Community in the Heroides (2005). Her current work is on the portrayal of emotions in ancient literature. John M. Fyler is Professor of English at Tufts University, Massachusetts, and is also on the faculty of the Bread Loaf School of English. He is the author of Language and the Declining World in Chaucer, Dante, and Jean de Meun (2007) and Chaucer and Ovid (1979), as well as of a number of essays on Ovid, Chaucer, and medieval literature. He also edited the House of Fame for the Riverside Chaucer. Luigi Galasso teaches Latin language and literature in the Faculty of Musicology at the University of Pavia. He has edited the second book of Ovid’s Epistulae ex Ponto with a commentary (1995) and is the author of a commentary on the whole of Ovid’s Metamorphoses (2000).