Ovid's Homer: Authority, Repetition, Reception

Ovid's Homer examines the Latin poet's engagement with the Homeric poems throughout his career. Boyd offers detailed analysis of Ovid's reading and reinterpretation of a range of Homeric episodes and characters from both epics, and demonstrates the pervasive presence of Homer in Ovid's work.
The resulting intertextuality, articulated as a poetics of paternity or a poetics of desire, is particularly marked in scenes that have a history of scholiastic interest or critical intervention; Ovid repeatedly asserts his mastery as Homeric reader and critic through his creative response to
alternative readings, and in the process renews Homeric narrative for a sophisticated Roman readership. Boyd offers new insight into the dynamics of a literary tradition, illuminating a previously underappreciated aspect of Ovidian intertextuality.


Author: Barbara Weiden Boyd
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 12/05/2017
Pages: 320
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.45lbs
Size: 9.20h x 6.40w x 1.30d
ISBN: 9780190680046

Review Citation(s):
Choice 08/01/2018

About the Author

Barbara Weiden Boyd is Henry Winkley Professor of Latin and Greek at Bowdoin College. She is the author of Ovid's Literary Loves: Influence and Innovation in the Amores, and editor of Brill's Companion to Ovid and Approaches to Teaching the Works of Ovid and the Ovidian Tradition.