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1 online resource (xii, 180 pages) "Of all the poets of ancient Rome, Ovid had perhaps the most influence on the art and literature of Medieval and Renaissance Europe. Even today he is probably the most accessible of all classical poets to the nonspecialist, both in his subject matter and in his style. Ovid is no less fascinated than we are by the human psyche and by the ways men and women relate to each other, and many of his views on these questions seem centuries ahead of his time. Ovid's interest in narrative technique is so much like ours that modern critical terms such as 'reader-response' could have been coined for his experiments with story telling. In the creation of different personae and points of view his ingenuity is endless. For the Amores he invented a posing poet-lover; for the Art of Love, his narrator is a cynical professor of seduction who is convinced, quite wrongly, that he has love down to a science. In the Heroides, a series of verse-letters from the famous women of legend to their lovers, he brilliantly recreated great moments of heroic mythology from the feminine point of view. The longest and most enchanting of his works, the Metamorphoses, an epic-length

Author

Mack, Sara, 1939-

Publisher

New Haven : Yale University Press, C1988.

Published

1988

Language

EN

ISBN

9780585355443

Subjects

Literary Fiction, History, Poetry