Ovid: References & Edit History
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Important general studies of Ovidās life and work include Brooks Otis, Ovid as an Epic Poet, 2nd ed. (1970); Ronald Syme, History in Ovid (1978); Sarah Mack, Ovid (1988); and Alessandro Barchiesi, The Poet and the Prince: Ovid and Augustan Discourse (1997; originally published in Italian, 1994); and John C. Thibault, The Mystery of Ovidās Exile (1964).
Worthwhile treatments of the Metamorphoses include G. Karl Galinsky, Ovidās Metamorphoses: An Introduction to Basic Aspects (1975); Joseph B. Solodow, The World of Ovidās Metamorphoses (1988); and Sarah Annes Brown, Ovid: Myth and Metamorphosis (2005).
Other aspects of Ovidās work are the subject of Howard Jacobson, Ovidās Heroides (1974); Paul Murgatroyd, Mythical and Legendary Narrative in Ovidās Fasti (2005); P.J. Davis, Ovid and Augustus: A Political Reading of Ovidās Erotic Poems (2006); Molly Myerowitz, Ovidās Games of Love (1985); Rebecca Armstrong, Ovid and His Love Poetry (2005); and Harry B. Evans, Publica Carmina: Ovidās Books from Exile (1983).
Ovidās later influence is treated in Charles Martindale (ed.), Ovid Renewed (1988); Leonard Barkan, The Gods Made Flesh (1986); and William S. Anderson (ed.), Ovid: The Classical Heritage (1995).
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Article History
| Type | Description | Contributor | Date |
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| Modified link of Web site: Humanities LibreTexts - Ovid - Introduction. | Sep 05, 2026 | ||
| Anniversary information added. | Jan 01, 2026 | ||
| Add new Web site: ABC Radio National - The Book Show - The love poems, letters and remedies of Ovid: David Slavitt. | Aug 14, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: Academia - A Poet between Two Worlds: Ovid in Late Antiquity (PDF). | Jun 02, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: The National Gallery - Who was Ovid? | Apr 14, 2025 | ||
| Questions and answers added. | Feb 13, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: Humanities LibreTexts - Ovid - Introduction. | Feb 08, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: BBC Sounds - Ovid. | Dec 12, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: History Today - The Birth of Ovid. | Sep 30, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: Poetry Foundation - Ovid. | May 16, 2024 | ||
| First paragraph modernization. | Apr 01, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: Dickinson College Commentaries - Life of Ovid. | Feb 23, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: BCcampus Open Publishing - Ovid. | Nov 28, 2023 | ||
| Add new Web site: Penn Arts and Sciences - Department of Classical Studies - Ovid. | Jul 28, 2023 | ||
| Add new Web site: Famous Authors - Biography of Ovid. | Mar 28, 2022 | ||
| Replaced media. | Dec 20, 2019 | ||
| Add new Web site: World History Encyclopedia - Ovid. | Feb 22, 2019 | ||
| Changed title of the "Assessment" section to "Legacy." | Nov 15, 2017 | ||
| Add new Web site: AllMusic - Biography of Ovid. | May 05, 2017 | ||
| Article revised. | Aug 27, 2015 | ||
| Add new Web site: Public Broadcasting Service - The Roman Empire - Biography of Ovid. | May 15, 2014 | ||
| Add new Web site: Academy of American Poets - Ovid. | May 15, 2014 | ||
| Add new Web site: Quatr.us - Biography of Ovid. | Feb 07, 2013 | ||
| Add new Web site: UNRV History - Biography of Publius Ovidius Naso. | Feb 07, 2013 | ||
| Add new Web site: Fact Monster - People - Biography of Ovid. | Sep 26, 2011 | ||
| Eighteenth-century illustration of Ovid added. | Nov 13, 2009 | ||
| Added photograph. | Aug 26, 2009 | ||
| Added new Web site: How Stuff Works - History - Biography of Ovid. | Nov 13, 2008 | ||
| Bibliography revised and updated. | Jan 18, 2008 | ||
| Added new Web site: The Electronic Text Center at the University of Virginia Library - Metamorphoses - Ovid. | Jun 13, 2006 | ||
| Article added to new online database. | Jul 20, 1998 |