Ovid Metamorphosen

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 ...

Jane Alison’s fascination with Ovid was apparent with the publication of her first book, The Love Artist—a vivid portrayal of Ovid’s exile and the woman who bewitched him. Alison’s...

Whereas Plato is more commonly considered as an ancient source for The Picture of Dorian Gray, this chapter looks at Ovid and his Metamorphoses as a classical model for Wilde’s sol...

Ovid’s poems of exile have found new life not only through Darrieussecq’s translations, but also through the way in which they inform the poetry of Josephine Balmer whose volume Th...

Ovid's Heroides, a collection of twenty-one epistles in elegiac verse, consists of two groups, the first comprising fourteen poems addressed by heroines of mythology to their absen...