Works Of Ovid Research Articles

Indicium in the Works of Ovid

Indicium in the Works of Ovid

The Lost Mythological Figures Mosaic From Pitney, Somerset

AbstractThe largest of the mosaics from the Pitney villa in Somerset, found and destroyed in the last century, depicted Bacchus surrounded by eight mythological figures, with busts of Winds in the comers; an adjoining panel depicted Cupid-Seasons. This paper will discuss the iconography of the eight figures and will suggest that the key to their interpretation lies in misplacement of two of the panels when the mosaic was originally laid. It will be contended that the myths of the four couples would have been known to a patron familiar with the works of Ovid, and hence that this lost mosaic provides further evidence for literacy in Roman Britain.

Medea in Ovid's Metamorphoses and the Ovide Moralisé: Translation as Transmission

Ovide Moralisé of the early fourteenth century is much more than a translation into Old French of the first-century Latin Metamorphoses of Ovid. It has long been observed that mediaeval translators were not driven by a passion for "accuracy," or torn by a sense of the futility of their task as their modern counterparts have been. As a comparison of the two texts clearly shows, the mediaeval poet augmented Ovid's work where he found it lacking, displaying an encyclopaedic erudition in the process. The author of Ovide Moralise also adapted the pagan content of Ovid's Metamorphoses to convey Christian dogma to his audience. Every narrative element, every character, and every symbol is employed to represent a Christian significance by means of allegorical exegeses which are as long as or longer than the passages they explicate.

Juan de Mena's Ovidian material: an Alfonsine influence?

The works of Ovid have never, from his death to the present day, been completely forgotten. His popularity waned when the early Christian writers condemned his works as immoral and licentious. By t...

Ovid's Metamorphoses. Books 6-10

The Latin text of the poem's first five books including commentary and an introduction highlighting the central themes in Ovid's work which extends in time from the creation of the world to the death of Julius Caesar. The first five books are concerned with the relationship between gods and humans,

Notes On Ovid, Heroides 9

Recently Mr. E. Courtney has reopened discussion on the authenticity of the last six Heroides, a subject which had almost universally been accepted as settled by scholars.2 He also briefly discussed the ninth epistle and examined certain grounds for doubting whether it is rightly included in the Ovidian canon. In this he is following Karl Lachmann, who was disposed to doubt the authenticity not only of the last six but also of those of the remainder which are not mentioned in Ovid's catalogue of the epistles given at Amores 2. 18 f.3 This despoliation of the canon has not generally found favour since Lachmann, and in the case of Heroides 9 (Deianira Herculi) the editors (e.g. Palmer) and other scholars working on the poems (e.g. Housman and recently Dörrie)4 have without exception regarded the poem as a genuine specimen of Ovid's work.

Ovid on Himself. Selections from the Works of Ovid Illustrating His Life and Development as a Writer

Ovid on Himself. Selections from the Works of Ovid Illustrating His Life and Development as a Writer

The Juvenile Works of Ovid and the Spondaic Period of His Metrical Art

The Juvenile Works of Ovid and the Spondaic Period of His Metrical Art