Bibliography
Here are the collected works I have cited. I will add works as I cite them in my comments/posts. So, don’t worry if you don’t see the most important tomes listed here right away; they are coming!
Live Bibliography:
Commentaries (texts and line-by-line comments from scholars):
- Barchiesi, Alessandro, Gianpiero Rosati, Edward Kenney, and Joseph Reed (2005-2013). Ovidio Metamorfosi. Vol. I-V. Trebasaleghe, Italy: Fondazione Valla.
- Bömer, Franz (1969-1986). P. Ovidius Naso – Metamorphosen. Vol. I-VIII. Heidelberg: Carl Winter – Universitätsverlag.
- Thomas, Richard (1988). Virgil: Georgics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Edited Volumes (collections of scholarly essays):
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Hardie, Philip, ed (2002). The Cambridge Companion to Ovid. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Books:
- Davis, Gregson (1983). The Death of Procris: “Amor” and the Hunt in Ovid’s Metamorphoses. Rome: Edizioni dell’Ateneo.
- Fontenrose, Joeseph (1981). Orion: the myth of the hunter and the huntress. Berkeley And Los Angeles: University of California Press.
- Hardie, Philip (2002). Ovid’s Poetics of Illusion. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
- Myers, K. Sara (1994). Ovid’s Causes: Cosmogony and Aetiology in the Metamorphoses. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press.
- Ziogas, Ioannis (2013). Ovid and Hesiod: The Metamorphosis of the Catalogue of Women. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Journal Articles (articles from scholarly journals) and Book Chapters:
- Gildenhard, Ingo, and Andrew Zissos (2000). “Inspirational Fictions: Autobiography and Generic Reflexivity in Ovid’s Proems.” Greece & Rome Second Series 47, no. 1: 67-79.
- King, Helen (2002). “Bound to Bleed: Artemis and Greek Women.” In Sexuality and Gender in the Classical World, edited by Laura McClure, 77-97. Oxford: Blackwell.
- Lefkowitz, Mary (1993). “Seduction and Rape in Greek Myth.” In Consent and Coercion to Sex and Marriage in Ancient and Medieval Societies, edited by Angela Laiou, 17-38. Washington, D.C.: Dumbarton Oaks.
- Most, Glenn (2013). “Eros in Hesiod.” In Eros in Ancient Greece, edited by Ed Sanders, Chiara Thumiger, Chris Carey, and Nick Lowe, 163-74. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
- Parry, Hugh (1964). “Ovid’s Metamorphoses: Violence in a Pastoral Landscape.” Transactions and Proceedings of the American Philogical Association 95: 268-82.
- Segal, Charles (2001). “Intertextuality and Immortality: Ovid, Pythagoras and Lucretius in Metamorphoses 15.” Materiali e discusioni per l’analisi dei testi classici 46: 63-101
- Sourvinou-Inwood, Christiane (1987). “A Series of Erotic Pursuits: Images and Meanings.” The Journal of Hellenic Studies 107: 131-53.
- Wheeler, Stephen (1995). “Imago Mundi: Another View of the Creation in Ovid’s Metamorphoses.” The American Journal of Philology 116, no. 1: 95-121.
- Wills, Jeffrey (1990). “Callimachean Models for Ovid’s ‘Apollo-Daphne’.” Materiali e discussioni per l’analisi dei testi classici 24: 143-56.
- Zeitlin, Froma (1986). “Configurations of Rape in Greek Myth.” In Rape, edited by Sylvana Tomaselli and Roy Porter, 122-51. Oxford: Basil Blackwell.
The metamorphoses themselves are often located metatextually within the poem, through grammatical or narratorial transformations.
Yes, it’s true. This is a challenge for me as a cartoonist: how to convey word games through pictures, and how to get readers to recognise metatext when they lack the cultural background Ovid could have expected of his Roman readers. i try to cover theses things in the blog posts under the comic, but I always appreciate help pointing them out from readers 😉