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The opposition between the naked and the clothed body is one of the most productive elements of cultural history and is often associated with the dichotomy between nature and culture. According to tradition, nudity stimulates the imagination and is the imaginary origin of art. The article examines this narrative in Ovid’s Metamorphoses and in the eighteenth century in Rousseau, the Encyclopédie, and Winckelmann, in order to show its poetic productivity, but also its colonial entanglements.

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- Psychoanalysis, German Literature, Anthropology of the Body, Cultural Theory
- by John C Franklin and +2
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- Philology, Religion, Ancient Egyptian Religion, Sumerian Religion
- by Eleonora Tola
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- Latin Literature, Poetics, Ovid (Classics), Reception of Ovid

Review of the Ovidian book by Laurel Fulkerson.

- by Radosław Piętka
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- Classics, Ovid (Classics), Latin poetry

For Scylla buffs, from the archive: a paragraph-long 1984 note scanned from Liverpool Classical Monthly 9(1984) 79. LCM was the much-loved stencil-sheet journal founded and edited by John Pinsent which anticipated the features of blog... more

- by Stephen Hinds
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- Ovid (Classics), Latin poetry, Ovid's Fasti

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Capítulo publicado en: Florio, Rubén (dir.) Varia et diversa: Sus contactos con la Historia, Mar del Plata, UNMPdP / UNL, 2018, pp. 157-206. // The main purpose of this research is proposing a new critical approach to the reading of the poem entitled De Raptu Helenae, which was written by Blossius Aemilius Dracontius in the 5th Century. We will particularly examine its exordium, in order to suggest that there is a strong formal connection between the compositional technique of centonal poems’ authors and certain narrative strategies adopted by Dracontius when he inscribes his text in the epic proemium’s tradition. Once established that the invocation of Homer and Virgil substitutes the conventional request to the Muse for inspiration, we shall demonstrate that the apparent praise constitutes actually a veiled attack to those pagan authors, structured by the semantic inversion of different quotes and allusion taken from Virgil, Ovid, Lucan, Prudentius and Ausonius, among other poets.
Centonal compositions - epic proems - Dracontius

- by Gabriela Andrea Marrón
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- Late Antiquity, Latin Epic, Ovid (Classics), Ausonius

Depuis quelques années on enregistre un regain d’intérêt de la critique pour l’Ovide moralisé, poème anonyme du début du XIVe siècle, qui représente la première traduction intégrale en vers français des Métamorphoses d’Ovide, dans laquelle chaque « fable » ovidienne est assortie de commentaires évhéméristes, allégoriques ou moraux1. La fortune récente de ce poème longtemps négligé malgré quelques rares études, comme la monographie de Paule Demats2, se situe dans le sillon des articles écrit par Marc-René Jung à la fi n des années 19903. Ces études montraient de façon éloquente la nécessité d’une nouvelle édition de l’Ovide moralisé, qui remplacerait celle qui avait été préparée au début du vingtième siècle par Cornelis De Boer. Les dimensions du poème et la complexité de la tradition manuscrite ont pourtant découragé pendant longtemps les chercheurs.

- by Massimiliano Gaggero
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- Romance philology, Textual Criticism, Ovid (Classics), Ovid Metamorphoses
- by Peter E Knox
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- Ovid (Classics), Ovid Metamorphoses, Ovid, Exile poetry
- by Alexander Kirichenko
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- Ovid (Classics)

Parution du dernier numéro de la Revue Vita Latina

- by RAYMOND-DUFOULEUR Emmanuelle and +1
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- Classics, Apuleius, Ovid (Classics), Lettres Classiques
- by Sergio Casali
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- Ovid, Heroides, Ovid (Classics), Ovid, Heroides
- by Pablo Martínez Astorino
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- Classics, Ovid (Classics), Ovid Metamorphoses, Augustan literature
- by Adam Norberg
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- Latin Literature, Ovid, Ovid (Classics), Latin poetry
- by María Teresa Almeida Marrero
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- Shakespeare, Ovid (Classics), A Midsummer Night's Dream, Ovidio

One of a few pdfs from my backlist which I'm adding to my academia page, given constrained access to libraries, in case anyone needs a moment of OVID in a time of COVID. (I'm assuming the goodwill of rights holders in these unusual... more

- by Stephen Hinds
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- Ovid (Classics)

Classical Quarterly 71.1 (2021): 259-75. This article examines the Roman tradition that Numa once negotiated with Jupiter about human sacrifice. Complete versions of the myth survive in Ovid, Plutarch and Arnobius (citing Valerius Antias). Previous studies of this tradition have proposed four main interpretations of it, which have done important service in modern reconstructions of the character of Roman religion. These scholarly treatments raise several questions. First, are they actually supported by, or the most convincing way of reading, the surviving ancient sources? If so, have they been correctly attributed? Why might a specific ancient author present the myth of Numa and Jupiter in a manner which suggests one interpretation rather than another? What ideological and theological work does the story do for Ovid, for Plutarch and for Arnobius? Finally, can this myth, in whatever version, support the weight of the implications put on it for the character of Roman religion? This article seeks to enhance our understanding of this myth in its surviving versions, not just by analysing the evidence for each of the modern interpretations, but also by considering why ancient authors tell the myth of Numa and Jupiter the way they do. It is argued that their choices illustrate best not one meaning of the myth nor one Roman way of piety but the richness and diversity of religious reflection in antiquity. ***How does Cambridge Core Share work? Cambridge Core Share allows authors, readers and institutional subscribers to generate a URL for an online version of a journal article. Anyone who clicks on this link will be able to view a read-only, up-to-date copy of the published journal article.

It has been argued that there were groups of artists called poetae Vergiliani and poetae Ovidiani. While this may be the case, re-examination of commonly adduced epigraphic evidence shows that these inscriptions cannot be used to support... more

- by Peter Kruschwitz
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- Latin Literature, Latin Epigraphy, Ovid (Classics), Virgil

verse translation of Ovid, Amores 2.17

- by Diane Arnson Svarlien
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- Classics, Translation of Poetry, Roman poetry, Ovid

Publiusz Owidiusz Nazon (43 p.n.e. – 17 n.e.) został w roku 8 n.e. wygnany z Rzymu do Tomis (dziś Konstanca w Rumunii) na rozkaz cesarza Augusta. Przyczyny wygnania nie są jasne, sam poeta wskazywał jedynie na tajemnicze carmen et error.... more

- by Tomasz Babnis
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- Ovid, Tristia, Roman Elegy, Black Sea region
- by Arduino Maiuri
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- Critical Theory, Religion, History, Cultural Studies

This chapter examines the story of Salmacis and Hermaphroditus from book 4 of Ovid’s Metamorphoses, whose two bodies are merged into one. A series of connections are drawn between Hermaphroditus and the representation of the primordial universe at the beginning of the Metamorphoses, where there is a continual oscillation between binary oppositions. By placing the Hermaphroditus narrative alongside the other ‘mythological’ stories of corporeal transformation, Ovid highlights how the apparent boundaries which exist in terms of textual genre are as fluid and unstable as those which are perceived to exist between genders. Ovid conveys this through the use of multiple allusions to ‘scientific’ accounts of ‘intersex’ beings in Empedocles, Plato’s Symposium and Lucretius’ De Rerum Natura. Ovid’s portrayal of Hermaphroditus expresses the breakdown of corporeal distinction through blurring the divisions between truth and falsehood, while undermining the use of opposition as a basic organizing principle across the cultural spectrum.

- by Peter M J Kelly
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- Classics, Plato, Pre-Socratic (Pre-Platonic) Philosophy, Ancient Greek Philosophy

The first part of this paper argues that Orpheus' telling of Hyacinth's story in Ov. Met. 10, 162-219 is a reworking of his own personal grief for Eurydice, narrated by Ovid shortly before. The second part analyses the extant Hellenistic... more

- by Francesco Busti
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- Classics, Latin Literature, Ovid, Latin Language and Literature

En el siguiente trabajo se analizarán distintos fragmentos de la obra de Ovidio donde el autor reelabora el tópico non omnis moriar, probablemente relacionado con la Oda 30,3 de la obra Odas (Horacio). Se intentará observar qué tipo de relación se establece entre la aparición de estos fragmentos en sus escritos y el contexto en el que se produjeron. La relación con Augusto parece cobrar gran importancia a la hora de interpretar las reelaboraciones y usos del tópico como una forma de persistir más allá de lo político y social.

- by Sabrina Vallone
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- Ovid (Classics), Ovid Metamorphoses, Literatura Romana, Augusto
- by Judith Hindermann
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- Mourning, Seneca, Cicero, Latin Literature (in Classics) - Seneca

Der Artikel stellt eine Unterrichtsreihe zum Ariadne-Mythos bei Ovid für den Lateinunterricht in der gymnasialen Oberstufe vor. Beigefügt sind ein Tafelbild sowie Kopiervorlagen mit den für den Unterricht aufbereiteten Textstellen,... more

- by Magnus Frisch
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- Latin Literature, Ovid, Ovid (Classics), Latin poetry

What does it mean to have a feminine voice in a literary world dominated by male authors? What would it mean for the contemporary reader of ancient and medieval texts to be responsive to the distinctiveness of the feminine voice? This article addresses these questions by focusing on an eleventh- century epistolary exchange between the poet and clergyman Baudri of Bourgueil and Constance, a young nun at Le Ronceray Abbey in Angers. This amatory correspondence develops through a dialogue with a multiplicity of voices that are part of the classical erotic tradition. Examining the inter- textual web created by these letters, the essay shows why intertextuality is a key for deciphering a text’s articulation of the feminine.

- by Stefano Rebeggiani and +1
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- Archaeology, Roman History, Augustan Poetry, Lexicography

Returning to the work begun in Amy Richlin's seminal essay on the unsettling topic of sexual violence in Ovid's work, "Reading Ovid's Rapes," this paper takes another look at the rich interpretive problems posed by the incessantly recurring theme of sexual violence in the "Metamorphoses." Though the perpetrators are almost exclusively divine, roughly a third of the myths recounted by the Roman poet features some form of sexual assault. When read in the context of conservative Augustan-era marriage legislation like the "Lex Julia de adulteriis," Ovid's insistence on the theme can be read as an indictment of Augustus himself, who after all insisted on likening himself in official imperial iconography to the cult of such gods as Apollo and Jupiter, two of the most egregious assailants throughout the long poem. However, each reiteration of the theme also reveals a series of other important concomitant concerns that arise from cases of sexual violence, including questions pertaining to illegitimate children and other unanticipated repercussions in the victim's family, that actually reveal Ovid to be more seriously engaged in thinking about the subject than he is commonly given credit for. Taking Ovid to task for the grave issues he tackles can actually provide fodder for productive discussion of topical issues effecting life on campus and in our country today. It is absolutely imperative that certain topics be addressed in productive and adult ways with our students if we expect to raise the level of our public discourse. Far from aestheticizing these topics as mere literary artifacts, Ovid's complex text demands to be read on a number of levels that are all pertinent to the world in which we live today.

- by Steven Baker
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- Ancient History, Intellectual History, Classics, Latin Literature
- by Despina Keramida
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- Ovid (Classics), Ovid, Ars amatoria
- by Wilfried Lingenberg
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- Ovid, Ibis, Ovid (Classics), Ovidius
- by Mathias Hanses
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- Ovid (Classics), Wordplay, Ovid Metamorphoses, Acrostics
- by Danae Christidou
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- Ovid (Classics), Latin Elegiac Poetry, Ovid, Heroides
- by Rita Pierini
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- Ovid, Ovid (Classics), Latin poetry, Varro
- by Christine Walde
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- Ovid (Classics)
- by Alexander Kirichenko
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- Augustan Poetry, Intertextuality, Propertius, Tibullus
- by Ilaria Pernici
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- Comparative Literature, Mythology, Renaissance Studies, Shakespeare

Augustus’ success in implementing monarchical rule at Rome is often attributed to innovations in the symbolic language of power, from the star marking Julius Caesar’s deification to buildings like the Palatine complex and Forum Augustum to rituals like triumphs and funerals. This book illumines Roman subjects’ vital role in creating and critiquing these images, in keeping with the Augustan poets’ sustained exploration of audiences’ role in constructing verbal and visual meaning. From Vergil to Ovid, these poets publicly interpret, debate, and disrupt Rome’s evolving political iconography, reclaiming it as the common property of an imagined republic of readers. In showing how these poets used reading as a metaphor for the mutual constitution of Augustan authority and a means of exercising interpretive libertas under the principate, this book offers a holistic new vision of Roman imperial power and its representation that will stimulate scholars and students alike. (forthcoming with Cambridge University Press, spring 2018)

- by Nandini Pandey
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- Discourse Analysis, Latin Literature, Roman History, Iconography
- by Sergio Casali
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- Ovid, Heroides, Double Heroides, Ovid (Classics)
- by Rita Pierini
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- Latin Literature, Ovid, Ovid (Classics), Latin poetry

The author is trying to retrace the structural pattern responsible for the coherence of Jan Kochanowski's "Elegiarum libri quattuor", a collection of 46 Latin elegies by Polish most prominent Renaissance poet. In order to achieve this he takes into account the characters hailing from the Trojan myth (Paris, Hector, Ifigenia, Ulysse...) as they apparently play a serious role in the poetic expression of different stages of the collection' s protagonist's emotional journey he takes as Lydia's infortunate lover but, more importantly, an adolescent becoming a grown man

- by Radosław T Rusnak
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- Lucretius, Ovid (Classics), Neolatin Literature, The Polish Renaissance