HONOUR SCHOOL OF LITERAE HUMANIORES

GREEK AND LATIN LITERATURE

III. 7 (c): OVID
( ) Amores 2, Metamorphoses 1-4, Fasti 4, Tristia 1
( ) Heroides 1821, Ars Amatoria 1, Metamorphoses 13-15
GENERAL
A. Barchiesi, Speaking Volumes: Narrative and Intertext in Ovid and other Latin
Poets (London, 2001)
J. Barsby, Ovid (Greece & Rome New Surveys in the Classics, no. 12, 1978)
J.W. Binns (ed), Ovid (London, 1973)
P. Hardie, Ovids Poetics of Illusion (Cambridge, 2002)
P. Hardie (ed), The Cambridge Companion to Ovid (Cambridge, 2002)
S. Hinds, Generalising about Ovid, Ramus 16 (1987), 4-31 [now also available in
Knox (2006)]
N. Holzberg, Ovid: The Poet and his Work (English Trans. Ithaca, NY, 2002)
E.J. Kenney, Ovid in Cambridge History of Classical Literature, II, edd. Kenney &
Clausen (1982),
420-57
P. E. Knox, Oxford Readings in Ovid (Oxford, 2006)
S. Mack, Ovid (New Haven, 1988)
R. Syme, History in Ovid (Oxford, 1978).
L.P. Wilkinson, Ovid Recalled (Cambridge, 1955)
B. Weiden Boyd (ed) Brills Companion to Ovid (Leiden, 2002)
AMORES
Text: Kenney OCT2 (1994)
Translations: P. Green (Penguin Classics, 1983); A.G. Lee (Cambridge, 1968); A.D.
Melville (Worlds Classics, 1990). NB All Melvilles translations have an
Introduction and brief notes by E.J. Kenney.
Commentaries: J. Booth (Aris and Phillips, 1992); J.C. McKeown (Leeds, 1987, with
text and Prolegomena in vol I, Commentary and further bibliography in III)
Books:
R. Armstrong, Ovid and His Love Poetry (London, 2005)
B.W. Boyd, Ovids Literary Loves: Influence and Innovation in the Amores (Ann
Arbor, 1997)
J.T. Davis, Fictus Adulter: Poet as Actor in the Amores (Amsterdam, 1989)
E. Greene, The Erotics of Domination: Male Desire and the Mistress in Latin Love
Poetry (Baltimore, 1998), Ch.s 4 and 5
S.L. James, Learned Girls and Male Persuasion: Gender and Reading in Roman Love
Elegy (Berkeley etc., 2003), Ch. 5
D.F. Kennedy, The Arts of Love (Cambridge, 1993)
R.O.A.M. Lyne, The Latin Love Poets from Catullus to Horace (Oxford, 1980), Ch. 10
K. Morgan, Ovids Art of Imitation. Propertius in the Amores (Leiden, 1977)

Articles:
J. Barsby, Ovids Amores and Roman Comedy, in Papers of the Leeds International
Latin Seminar vol.9 (1996) 13557
L. Cahoon, A Program for Betrayal. Ovidian nequitia in Amores 1.1, 2.1 and 3.1,
Helios 12 (1985) 2939
L. Cahoon, The parrot and the poet: the function of Ovids funeral elegies, CJ 80
(1984), 2735
F. Cairns, Self-Imitation within a Generic Framework: Ovid Amores 2.9 and 3.11 and
the renuntiatio amoris in Woodman and West (eds.) Creative Imitation and
Latin Literature (Cambridge, 1979), 12141
M.-K. Gamel, Non sine caede: abortion, politics and poetics in Ovids Amores,
Helios 16 (1989), 183206
J. Henderson, Wrapping up the Case: Reading Ovid, Amores 2.7 (+8), MD 27
(1991), 3988 (part I) and MD 28 (1992), 2783 (part II)
L.B.T. Houghton, Ovids Dead Parrot Sketch: Amores II.6, Mnemosyne 53 (2000)
718-721
A.M. Keith, Corpus Eroticum: Elegiac Poetics and Elegiac Puellae in Ovids Amores,
CW 88 (1994), 2740
D. Lateiner, Ovids homage to Callimachus and Alexandrian Poetic Theory (Am.
2.19), Hermes 106 (1978), 18896
B.E. Stirrup, Structure and Separation: a Comparative Analysis of Ovid, Amores
2.11 and 2.16, Eranos 74 (1976), 3252
P. Watson, Ovid Amores 2.7 and 8: The Disingenuous Defence Wiener Studien 17
(1983), 91-103
ARS AMATORIA
Text: Kenney OCT2 (1994)
Translation: P. Green (Penguin Classics, 1983); A.D. Melville (Oxford, Worlds
Classics, 1990)
Commentary: A.S. Hollis, Ovid Ars Amatoria Book 1 (Oxford, 1977, with Introduction
and Commentary)
Books:
R. Armstrong, Ovid and His Love Poetry (London, 2005)
E. Downing, Artificial Is: The Self as Artwork in Ovid, Kierkegaard and Thomas
Mann (Tbingen, 1993) (in the Taylorian)
M. Labate, Larte di farsi amare: modelli culturali e progetto didascalico nell elegia
ovidiana (Pisa, 1984)
M. Myerowitz, Ovids Games of Love (Detroit, 1985)
K. Volk, The Poetics of Latin Didactic (Oxford, 2002) Ch. 5
Articles:
C.F.J. Ahern, Ovid as uates in the proem to the Ars Amatoria, CP 85 (1990), 448
R.M. Durling, Ovid as praeceptor amoris, CJ 53 (1958) 157-67.
S.J. Heyworth, Ars Moratoria (Ovid, AA 1.681-704), LCM 17 (1992) 59-61.
D.F. Kennedy, Bluff Your Way in Didactic: Ovids Ars Amatoria and Remedia Amoris,
Arethusa 33 (2000), 15976

E.J. Kenney, Nequitiae Poeta in N.I. Herescu (ed.), Ovidiana (Paris 1958) 201-9.
E. Leach, Georgic imagery in the Ars Amatoria, TAPA 95 (1964) 142-54.
J.F. Miller, Callimachus and the Ars Amatoria, CP 78 (1983) 26-34.
H.N. Parker Loves Body Anatomised: The Ancient Erotic Handbooks and the
Rhetoric of Sexuality in A Richlin (ed.) Pornography and Representation in
Greece and Rome (Oxford and New York, 1992) pp. 90111
J. Shulman, Te quoque falle tamen: Ovid's anti-Lucretian didactics, CJ 76 (1981)
242-53.
J.B. Solodow, Ovid, Ars Amatoria: the lover as cultural ideal, WS 90 (1971) 106-27.
P. Toohey, Eros and Eloquence: Modes of Amatory Persuasion in Ovids Ars
Amatoria in W.J. Dominik (ed.) Roman Eloquence (Routledge, 1997), pp. 198
211
A.E. Wardman, The rape of the Sabines, CQ 15 (1965) 101-3.
P. Watson, Mythological exempla in Ovid's Ars Amatoria, CP 78 (1983) 117-26.
HEROIDES
Text: E.J. Kenney, Ovid, Heroides XVI-XXI (Cambridge, 1996, with Introduction,
Commentary and Bibliography)
Translations: Showerman, revised G. Goold (Loeb, 1977); H. Isbell (Penguin Classics,
1990).
NB Since the Latin text of the Heroides is often disputed, translations (as above) not
based on the prescribed text must be used with great caution; Kenney in his
Commentary often translates.
Commentaries: Kenney (above); A. Palmer (Oxford, 1898; reprinted Exeter, Bristol
Phoenix Press, 2005 with new introduction and bibliography by Duncan F.
Kennedy); P.A.M. Thompson, Ovid, Heroides 20 and 21, Commentary with
Introduction, unpublished Oxford 1989 D.Phil. thesis [the author allows
consultation of the Bodleian copy].
Books:
L. Fulkerson, The Ovidian heroine as author: reading, writing, and community in the
Heroides (Cambridge, 2005)
H. Jacobson, Ovids Heroides (Princeton, 1974)
S.H. Lindheim, Mail and female: epistolary narrative and desire in Ovid's Heroides
(Madison, 2003)
E. Spentzou, Readers and Writers in Ovids Heroides (Oxford, 2003)
F. Verducci, Ovids Toyshop of the Heart (Princeton, 1985, but nothing on double
letters).
Articles:
J. Farrell, Reading and Writing the Heroides, HSCP 98 (1998), 30738
A.S. Hollis, Rights of Way in Ovid (Her. 20.146) and Plautus (Curculio 36) CQ 44
(1994), 545-9
D.F. Kennedy, Epistolarity: the Heroides in the Cambridge Companion to Ovid
E.J. Kenney, Ovid and the Law, Yale Classical Studies 21 (1969), 241-63
R.A. Smith, Fantasy, Myth and Love-Letters: Text and Tale in Ovids Heroides,
Arethusa 27 (1994), 24773
P.A.M. Thompson, Notes on Ovid, Heroides 20 and 21 CQ 43 (1993), 258-65

FASTI
Text: Fantham (Cambridge, 1998)
Translation: Frazer, revised by Goold (Loeb, 1989); A.J. Boyle (Penguin Classics,
2000)
Commentaries: E. Fantham, Ovid, Fasti Book IV (Cambridge, 1998)
F. Bmer (in German, 2 vols, Heidelberg, 1957-8)
Books:
Arethusa 25 (1992), Reconsidering the Fasti (eight articles, by various contributors)
A. Barchiesi, The Poet and the Prince: Ovid and Augustan Discourse (Berkeley etc.,
1997)
G. Herbert-Brown, Ovid and the Fasti: a Historical Study (Oxford, 1994)
G. Herbert-Brown (ed.) Ovid's Fasti: Historical Readings at its Bimilennium (Oxford,
2002)
J.F. Miller, Ovids Elegiac Festivals (Frankfurt etc., 1991)
C.E. Newlands, Playing with Time: Ovid and the Fasti (Cornell, 1995)
E. Gee, Ovid, Aratus and Augustus: Astronomy in Ovids Fasti (Cambridge, 2000)
Articles:
E. Fantham, Ovid, Germanicus and the Composition of the Fasti, Papers of the
Liverpool Latin
Seminar 5 (1985), 243-81 [now also in Knox (2006), 373414]
E. Fantham, Recent Readings of Ovids Fasti CP 90 (1995), 367-78 (cf. eadem,
Antichthon 29 (1995), 42-59)
D.C. Feeney, Si licet et fas est: Ovids Fasti and the Problem of Free Speech under
the Principate, in Roman Poetry and Propaganda in the Age of Augustus, ed.
Powell (Bristol, 1992) [now also in Knox (2006), 46488]
S.J. Green, Docens poeta. Development of the Interviewers Skills in Ovids Fasti,
Latomus 60 (2001) 603-612
B. Harries, Causation and the Authority of the Poet in Ovids Fasti. CQ 39 (1989),
164-85
S. Hinds, Ovids Two Persephones, in The Metamorphosis of Persephone (see
above under
Metamorphoses, Books), pp.51-134
J.F. Miller, Callimachus and the Augustan Aetiological Elegy ANRW 2.30.1 (1982),
371-417
C. Newlands, Connecting the Disconnected: Reading Ovids Fasti in Sharrock and
Morales (eds.)
Intratextuality. Greek and Roman Textual Relations (Oxford, 2000), 171202
A. Wallace-Hadrill, Time for Augustus: Ovid, Augustus and the Fasti, in Homo
Viator ed Whitby etc. (1987), 221-30
METAMORPHOSES
Text: Tarrant OCT (2004)
Translation: A.D. Melville (Oxford, Worlds Classics)

Commentaries:
Bk 1, A.G. Lee (Cambridge, 1953, reprinted by Bristol Classical Press, 1984)
Bks 1-4, D.E. Hill (above)
Bks 1-5, W.S. Anderson (Oklahoma, 1997)
Bks 1-15 (seven volumes, in German), F. Bmer (Heidelberg, 1969-86)
Bk 13, N. Hopkinson (Cambridge, 2000)
Bks 1315, D.E. Hill (Aris and Phillips, 2000)
Books:
O.S. Due, Changing Forms: Studies in the Metamorphoses of Ovid (Copenhagen,
1974)
D.C. Feeney, The Gods in Epic (Oxford, 1991), Chapter 5
G.K. Galinksy, Ovids Metamorphoses: An introduction to the Basic Aspects
(Berkeley and LA, 1975)
P. Hardie et al (edd), Ovidian Transformations (PCPS Suppl. 23, Cambridge, 1999)
S. Hinds, The Metamorphosis of Persephone: Ovid and the Self-conscious Muse
(Cambridge, 1987)
A.M. Keith, The Play of Fictions: Studies in Ovids Metamorphoses Book 2 (Ann
Arbor, 1992)
P.E. Knox, Ovids Metamorphoses and the Tradition of Augustan Poetry (Cambridge,
1986)
K.S. Myers, Ovids Causes: Cosmogony and Aetiology in the Metamorphoses (Ann
Arbor, 1994)
B. Otis, Ovid as an Epic Poet (2nd ed, Cambridge 1970, the critical stance much
changed from the 1966 first ed)
J. Solodow, The World of Ovids Metamorphoses (Univ. of North Carolina, 1988)
G. Tissol, The Face of Nature: wit, narrative, and cosmic origins in Ovid's
Metamorphoses (Princeton, 1996)
S.M. Wheeler, A Discourse of Wonders. Audience and Performance in Ovids
Metamorphoses (Philadelphia, 1999)
Articles:
W.S. Anderson, Lycaon: Ovids Deceptive Paradigm in Metamorphoses 1, Illinois
Classical Studies 14 (1989), 91101
R. Brown, The Palace of the Sun in Ovids Metamorphoses, in Whitby, Hardie and
Whitby (eds.), Homo Viator: Classical Essays for John Bramble (Bristol, 1987),
211-20
S. Casali (2006) 'Other Voices in Ovid's Aeneid' in Knox (2006), 14465
A. Crabbe, Structure and Content in Ovids Metamorphoses, ANRW 2.31.4 (1981),
2274-327
J.D. Ellsworth, Ovids Odyssey: Met. 13.623-14.608, Mnemosyne 41 (1988), 333-40
J. Farrell, Dialogue of Genres in Ovids Lovesong of Polyphemus (Met. 13.719
897), AJPh 113 (1992), 23568
A. Feldherr, Metamorphosis and Sacrifice in Ovids Theban Narrative, MD 38
(1997), 2555
G.K. Galinsky, The Cipus episode in Ovids Metamorphoses (15.565-621), TAPA 98
(1967), 181-91
R. Gentilcore, The landscape of Desire: the Tale of Pomona and Vertumnus in Ovids
Metamorphoses, Phoenix 49 (1995), 11020
P.R. Hardie, Ovids Theban History: the first Anti-Aeneid? CQ 40 (1990), 224-35

P.R. Hardie, The Speech of Pythagoras in Ovid, Met. 15, CQ 45 (1995), 204-14
P.R. Hardie, The Historian in Ovid. The Roman History of Metamorphoses 1415 in
Levene and Nelis (eds.) Clio and the Poets. Augustan Poetry and the Traditions
of Ancient Historiography.
Mnemosyne Suppl. 224 (Leiden, 2002), 191209
S.J. Heyworth, Some Allusions to Callimachus in Latin Poetry, MD 33 (1994), 51-79
(72-6 on Met.1.1-4)
A.S. Hollis, Ovid, Metamorphoses 1.445ff: Apollo, Daphne and the Pythian Crown,
ZPE 112 (1996), 69-73
A.S. Hollis, Traces of Ancient Commentaries on Ovids Metamorphoses (mainly on
Met.2), Papers of the Leeds Latin Seminar 9 (1996), 159-74
M. Janan, There Beneath the Roman Ruins Where the Purple Flowers Grow: Ovids
Minyeides and the Feminine Imagination, AJPh 115: 42748
E.J. Kenney, Ovidius prooemians, PCPS 22 (1976), 46-53
E.J. Kenney, The Style of the Metamorphoses in Binns (ed.) Ovid, 116-53
R.O.A.M Lyne, Ovids Metamorphoses, Callimachus, and lart pour lart. MD 12
(1984), 9-34
L. Morgan, Childs Play: Ovid and his Critics, JRS 93 (2003), 66-91
K.S. Myers, Ultimus Ardor: Pomona and Vertumnus in Ovid, Met. 14.623-771, CJ 89
(1994), 225-50
B.R. Nagle, Erotic Pursuit and Narrative Seduction in Ovids Metamorphoses,
Ramus 17 (1988), 32-51
W.S.M. Nicoll, Cupid, Apollo and Daphne (Ovid, Met. 1.425ff), CQ 30 (1980), 174-82
M. Robinson, Salmacis and Hermaphroditus: When Two Become One, CQ 49
(1999), 21223
G. Rosati, Narrative Techniques and Narrative Structures in the Metamorphoses in
Brills Companion
to Ovid (see above, under General), 271304
M. Salzman, Deification in the Fasti and Metamorphoses, Coll. Latomus 244
(1998), 31346
C.P. Segal, Myth and Philosophy in the Metamorphoses. Ovids Augustanism and
the Augustan
Conclusion of Book XV, AJP 90 (1969), 257-92
G. Tissol, Ovids little Aeneid and the Thematic Integrity of the Metamorphoses,
Helios 20 (1993), 69
79
S.M. Wheeler, Imago Mundi: Another View of the Creation in Ovids
Metamorphoses, AJPh 116
(1995), 95121
TRISTIA
Text: S.G. Owen, OCT (1915)
Translation: A.D. Melville, Ovid, Sorrows of an Exile (Tristia) (Oxford, 1992)
A.L. Wheeler (Loeb, 1924)
Commentaries: (none in English) G. Luck (Heidelberg, 1967-77, in German). There
are useful notes in the Bud of J. Andr (Paris, 1968).
Books:
J.-M. Claassen, Displaced Persons: The Literature of Exile from Cicero to Boethius

(London, 1999)
H.B. Evans, Publica Carmina: Ovids Books for Exile (Lincoln, 1983)
B.R. Nagle, The Poetics of Exile: Program and Polemic in the Tristia and Epistulae ex
Ponto of Ovid
(Coll. Latomus 170, Brussels, 1980)
G.D. Williams, Banished Voices: Readings in Ovids Exile Poetry (Cambridge, 1994)
Articles
J-M. Classen, Ovids Poetic Pontus, Papers of Leeds International Latin Seminar 6
(1990), 65-94
R.J. Dickinson, The Tristia: Poetry in Exile, in Ovid (ed. Binns), 154-90
S.E. Hinds, Booking the Return Trip: Ovid and Tristia 1 PCPS 31 (1985), 13-32 [now
also in Knox (2006), 41540]
S.E. Hinds, First among Women: Ovid, and the traditions of exemplary catalogue,
PCPS suppl. 22
(1999) 123-42
E.J. Kenney, The Poetry of Ovids Exile PCPS 11 (1965), 37-49
P.A. Rosenmeyer, Ovids Heroides and Tristia: Voices from Exile, Ramus 26 (1997),
29-56
G.D. Williams, Representations of the Book-roll in Latin Poetry: Ovid, Tr. 1.1.3-14
and Related Texts
Mnemosyne 45 (1992) 178-189
There is a good on-line bibliography of Ovid (in German, but including references to
English and other language publications) at: www.kirke.huberlin.de/ovid/ovbibfr.html

RMA/RWC revised September 2007