Marita G. Weiden

Thelma & Louise, directed by Ridley Scott and written by Callie Khouri, sparked a remarkable public discussion about feminism, violence, and the representation of women in cine...

Chapter 1 surveys the place of Homer in Roman literary culture before Ovid, including the prominent place of the Iliad and Odyssey in early education and the role played by Livius ...

Chapter 7 considers a second central theme in Ovid’s Homeric reception, desire, and its evocation through repetition. The erotic tradition of Homeric reception that Ovid inherited ...

Chapter 9 follows Venus, Mars, and Vulcan to Rome and examines Ovid’s reception of these Homeric divinities as the divine ancestors of the Roman people. Ovid’s internalization of H...

Chapter 6 considers the evidence for a tradition of personification that identifies the Iliad and Odyssey as Homer’s daughters. This personification, likely a product of the Hellen...