Ovid's Homer: Tradition, Authority, and Epic Reception
FAIN: FB-57594-14
Barbara Weiden Boyd
Bowdoin College (Brunswick, ME 04011-8447)
An NEH Fellowship will enable me to complete a book on a unique topic in the field of classical literature. Based on my scholarly expertise in the study of the Roman poet Ovid (43 BCE-17 CE), I will examine Ovid's engagement with the Homeric epics Iliad and Odyssey throughout his career. This book will consider in depth Ovid's reading and reinterpretation of Homer, and will give literary scholars both in and outside of my discipline new insight into the dynamics of a literary tradition. Ovid's poetry has had a lasting impact on the artists, writers, and intellectuals in western cultures---and now, in world cultures---for 2000 years; my project will make an important contribution to our understanding of this impact.
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Ovid's Homer: Authority, Repetition, and Reception (Book)Title: Ovid's Homer: Authority, Repetition, and Reception
Author: Barbara Weiden Boyd
Abstract: 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 poems, and demonstrates the pervasive presence of Homer in Ovid's work.
Year: 2017
Primary URL:
https://www.worldcat.org/title/ovids-homer-authority-repetition-reception/oclc/1021388490&referer=brief_resultsPublisher: Oxford University Press
Type: Single author monograph
ISBN: 9780190680046
Copy sent to NEH?: Yes