A Handbook to the Reception of Ovid

A Handbook to the Reception of Ovid presents more than 30original essays written by leading scholars revealing the richdiversity of critical engagement with Ovid’s poetry thatspans the Western tradition from antiquity to the presentday. 

• Offers innovative perspectives on Ovid’s poetry and itsreception from antiquity to the present day
• Features contributions from more than 30 leading scholars inthe Humanities.
• Introduces familiar and unfamiliar figures in the history ofOvidian reception.
• Demonstrates the enduring and transformative power ofOvid’s poetry into modern times.

John F. Miller is the Arthur F. and Marian W. StockerProfessor of Classics and Chair of the Department of Classics atthe University of Virginia. His publications include Apollo,Augustus, and the Poets (2009) and Ovid’s ElegiacFestivals: Studies in the Fasti (1991).

Carole Newlands is Professor of Classics at theUniversity of Colorado Boulder. Her publications includeStatius: Poet between Rome and Naples (2012); Statius,Siluae 2, A Commentary (2011); Statius’ Siluae and thePoetics of Empire (2002); Playing with Time: Ovid and theFasti (1995).