117 results for '"Ovid"'

A powerful version of the Latin classic by England's late Poet Laureate, now in paperback.When it was published in 1997, Tales from Ovid was immediately recognized as a classic in its own right, as...

This book offers a fresh reading of the Amores centered on the aggressive, opportunistic, endlessly fluent, pleasure-seeking character, the poet-lover of the collection, here called Naso. Resisting...

This persuasive book describes the complex, often violent connections between body and voice in Ovid's Metamorphoses and narrative, lyric and dramatic works by Petrarch, Marston and Shakespeare. Lynn...

Originally published in 1957, as part of the Cambridge Elementary Classics series, this book presents the Latin text of the Phaethon myth as recounted by Ovid, together with other stories from the...

Introductory essays by Jennifer Ingleheart discuss Ovid's historical and literary context, and offer an overview of the Amores as a whole. In addition, each poem is accompanied by an exploratory...

In Ovid’s Metamorphoses, existence is perpetual transformation. Humans and gods become plants and animals, stones and stars―or something in between. No rigid distinctions remain untroubled. In his...

In words that are both disturbing and intense, a collection of poetry finds the Roman poet Ovid in London, Romeo and Juliet in Florida, and vanity corrupting everything in its path from the classical...

Kauffman looks at a neglected genre--the love letter written by literary heroines. Tracing the development of the genre from Ovid to the twentieth-century novel, she explores the important...

Timothy Dunphy finds it difficult to relate to his harsh, working-class father or his upper-class schoolmates at a Connecticut prep school

Vincent Katz offers translations of all 107 known poems by the Augustan poet Sextus Propertius, a contemporary of Ovid. The translations keep as closely as possible to the original syntax, as...

By exploring the relationship between the idea of Nature and the idea of Art in the period from 1660-1760, this study attempts to account for the distinctive quality of the 'Augustan mode' in...

"An examination of the ways in which Covid policies, and the scientific debate which surrounded it, were politicized. In response to the Covid pandemic, public and private resources were expended on...

Examines how the dynamics emerging from the pandemic affect our most vulnerable populations and shape a new religious landscapeThe COVID-19 pandemic upset virtually every facet of society and, in...

Kitty Maule longs to be "totally unreasonable, totally unfair, very demanding, and very beautiful." She is instead clever, reticent, self-possessed, and striking. For years. Kitty has been tactfully...

The most comprehensive guide to the bovids of the worldBovids are a diverse group of ruminant mammals that have hooves and unbranched hollow horns. Bovids of the World is the first comprehensive...