Appendix Ovidiana: Latin Poems Ascribed to Ovid in the Middle Ages - Hardcover

Ralph Hexter

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0674238389 ISBN 13: 9780674238381

Publisher: Harvard University Press, 2020

Synopsis

When does imitation of an author morph into masquerade? Although the Roman writer Ovid died in the first century CE, many new Latin poems were ascribed to him from the sixth until the fifteenth century. Like the Appendix Vergiliana, these verses reflect different understandings of an admired Classical poet and expand his legacy throughout the Middle Ages.

The works of the “medieval Ovid” mirror the dazzling variety of their original. The Appendix Ovidiana includes narrative poetry that recounts the adventures of both real and imaginary creatures, erotic poetry that wrestles with powerful desires and sexual violence, and religious poetry that―despite the historical Ovid’s paganism―envisions the birth, death, and resurrection of Christ.

This is the first comprehensive collection and English translation of these pseudonymous medieval Latin poems.

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About the Authors

Ralph Hexter is Distinguished Professor of Classics and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Davis.

Laura Pfuntner is a Lecturer in Ancient History at Queen’s University Belfast.

Justin Haynes is Assistant Professor of Classics at Georgetown University.

Edition details

• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Publication date: 2020
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0674238389
• ISBN 13: 9780674238381
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 400