Barbara Weiden Boyd
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 1185489 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Barbara Weiden Boyd |
| PRENOMES | Barbara Weiden |
| SOBRENOME | Boyd |
| ASSINATURA | BOYD B W |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Bowdoin College |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 31 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 97 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 30 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1984 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2024 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
Apocalypse Now? Kate Atkinson Reads Ovid’s Metamorphoses
Kate Atkinson’s short story collection, Not the End of the World (2002), has typically puzzled reviewers, unsure of its goals and hesitant about its success. This essay offers an alternative, by reading the collection through the lens of Ovid’s Metamorphoses. Atkinson clearly signals her debt to Ovid in several epigraphs, but the overall impression left with readers who know Ovid only as a repository of classical myth has caused Atkinson’s remark…
Ovidian Linearities
This paper considers some implications of Ovid’s concept of a perpetuum carmen by examining how the ‘narrative line’ of the poem takes shape. I focus on how the Metamorphoses can be described in terms of horizontality, or verticality, or both, and use the Cadmus and Achelous episodes to demonstrate how ‘linear’ entities, particularly snakes and rivers, can determine the progress of the stories in which they appear
Still, She Persisted
This paper examines how a complex of ideas involving memory and materiality can offer a new way to view metamorphosis in Ovid’s Metamorphoses. Through the embodiment of power in transformed things, Ovid uses several of the episodes in the poem to push back against mutability and loss of speech, and to assert a different kind of permanence. Much of Ovid’s discourse about memory and materiality is linked through the trope of aetiology, i.e., the ex…
Seeing Double
Chapter 2 focuses on the Homeric character Diomedes and his appearances in Ovid’s poetry. It begins with a detailed discussion of the scene in Iliad Book 4 in which Agamemnon chastises Diomedes for not being quicker to join the fighting, comparing him to his detriment with his father, Tydeus. The discussion focuses on a small but significant ambiguity in this episode regarding Diomedes’s response to Agamemnon, and then proceeds to a more general …
Starting from Homer
Chapter 1 surveys the place of Homer in Roman literary culture before Ovid, including the prominent place of the Iliad and Odyssey in early education and the role played by Livius Andronicus and Ennius in bringing the Greek past to Rome. It offers an overview of the character of Homeric allusiveness in Latin poetry before Ovid, especially in Catullus, Tibullus, and Propertius and the elegists. The chapter concludes with the suggestion that Ovid’s…
Homer’s Gods in Rome
Chapter 9 follows Venus, Mars, and Vulcan to Rome and examines Ovid’s reception of these Homeric divinities as the divine ancestors of the Roman people. Ovid’s internalization of Homeric repetition is complemented by distinctively Roman variations on the theme; the chapter therefore closes with a consideration of several other instances of Homeric resonance in Ovid that cluster around these gods. Two episodes in Fasti Book 3 are the focus, as Ovi…
Fathers and Sons, Part Two
Chapter 4 continues the exploration of the poetics of paternity begun in chapter 2. The father-son relationship is a productive one for Ovid, both thematically and metatextually, and he explores its implications in a number of other episodes or poems that are not explicitly Homeric in origin but that bear the stamp of Ovid’s Homeric engagement. The Daedalus and Icarus story in Metamorphoses Book 8 sets the stage for the discussion. The chapter th…
Homer in Love
Chapter 7 considers a second central theme in Ovid’s Homeric reception, desire, and its evocation through repetition. The erotic tradition of Homeric reception that Ovid inherited can be seen in the longest extant fragment of the elegiac poem Leontion , in which the Hellenistic poet Hermesianax offers a catalogue of ancient poets and the women they loved. In Tristia 1.6, Ovid expands upon the central trope of this catalogue, in which poetry is pe…
Paternity Tests
Chapter 5 is devoted to the poetics of paternity in Ovid’s exile poems. Ovid repeatedly invokes paternity in describing his poems, referring to them as his “children” and suggesting analogies between his own plight and that of some of the doomed sons in ancient myth. In Epistulae ex Ponto 3.9, Ovid compares himself to Thersites’s father, who felt affection for his son despite the contempt in which he was held by others; Ovid claims a similar indu…
Homeric Desires
Chapter 8 is devoted to Ovid’s two extended treatments of the Homeric Loves of Venus and Mars, found for the first time in Odyssey Book 8. The importance of repetition and formulaic compositional technique is central to the discussion, as Ovid repeats the Homeric tale in two very different settings and contexts. In Ars amatoria Book 2, the tale has an ostensibly didactic function that challenges Augustan mores , especially through its innovative …
Fathers and Sons, Part One
Chapter 3 recaps the centrality of paternity as thematic and metatextual link between Homer and Ovid. It considers the didactic or paradigmatic connotations of paternal guidance and then turns to the Embassy to Achilles (Book 9 of the Iliad ), in which the power of a father to guide his son is validated but also shown to be severely limited. Achilles’s tutor Phoenix tries to soften Achilles’s anger with an exemplum about Meleager: this attempt on…
Poetic Daughters
Chapter 6 considers the evidence for a tradition of personification that identifies the Iliad and Odyssey as Homer’s daughters. This personification, likely a product of the Hellenistic age, is known from the visual record, as exemplified by the Archelaus relief. It is also expressed in several Hellenistic epigrams that use the conceit that poetry can help to perpetuate its creator’s fame much as children sustain the reputation of their parents. …
Ovid's Homer
This book is the first extended modern study of the Latin poet Ovid’s Homeric intertextuality. Ovid’s relationship with the Homeric poems is shown to be neither occasional nor simply incidental; rather, careful and creative readings of the abundant evidence of Ovid’s career-long engagement with the Iliad and the Odyssey demonstrate a coherent and profound pattern of animated intertextuality and transformative reception. Passages and poems from th…
Ovid’s Circe and the Revolutionary Power of carmina in the Remedia amoris
Ovid’s Early Poetry
Reviewed by: Ovid’s Early Poetry: From his Single Heroides to his Remedia Amoris by Thea S. Thorsen Barbara Weiden Boyd Thea S. Thorsen. Ovid’s Early Poetry: From his Single Heroides to his Remedia Amoris. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014. Pp. xii, 223. $95.00. ISBN 978–1-107–04041–0. The connections between Ovid’s Amores, Ars Amatoria, and Remedia Amoris are well known. The Heroides, however, have only occasionally been integrated int…
Remedia Amoris
This chapter contains sections titled: Introduction The Metapoetic Frame Praecepta Genre(s) Further Reading
Textbook and Context
Textbook and Context:"The Next Aeneid"1 Barbara Weiden Boyd The convener of the spring 2002 CAAS panel on New Directions in Teaching and Research on Vergil, Judith Hallett, has recently championed "the personal voice" in classical scholarship;2 for that reason, I want to begin this essay with a reminder—to myself as well as to my readers—that teaching, too, is an expression of the personal voice. Every teacher who has survived the first few years…
General Index
General Bibliography
Index Locorum
Preliminary material
The Amores
This chapter uses literary and historical categories to provide a framework for the Amores . It looks at how Ovid invents a poetic identity for himself in the Amores . The most basic structural components of Ovid's elegiac book, juxtaposition and opposition, are techniques which Ovid also uses with poems that are less clearly to be considered pairs or thematic clusters. Ovid says that he is driven by a turbo ; one might go so far as to put Cupid …
Brill's Companion to Ovid
This volume on the Roman poet Ovid (43 BCE – 17 CE) comprises articles by an international group of fourteen scholars. Their contributions cover a wide range of topics, including a biographical essay, a survey of the major manuscripts and textual traditions, and a comprehensive discussion of Ovid’s style. The remaining chapters are devoted to focused studies of each of Ovid’s major works, with emphasis given where appropriate to the poet’s intere…
Arms and the Man
Arms and the Man:Wordplay and the Catasterism of Chiron in Ovid Fasti 5 Barbara Weiden Boyd In a recent essay, Ian Brookes has drawn attention to the way in which Ovid's description of the catasterism of Chiron in Fasti 5 "suppresses Chiron's hybrid nature" as centaur "in order to allow us to sympathize with him as a fellow human."1 Brookes also directs us to the ironic ambiguity used by Ovid to portray the episode's three main characters, Chiron…
Celeus Rusticus
When the Lamp Is Shattered
Brill's Companion to Ovid
This volume on the Roman poet Ovid (43 BCE – 17 CE) comprises articles by an international group of fourteen scholars. Their contributions cover a wide range of topics, including a biographical essay, a survey of the major manuscripts and textual traditions, and a comprehensive discussion of Ovid’s style. The remaining chapters are devoted to focused studies of each of Ovid’s major works, with emphasis given where appropriate to the poet’s intere…
Virgil's Camilla and the Traditions of Catalogue and Ecphrasis (Aeneid 7.803-17)
Celabitur Auctor
Ovid's Homer
This book is the first extended modern study of the Latin poet Ovid’s Homeric intertextuality. Ovid’s relationship with the Homeric poems is shown to be neither occasional nor simply incidental; rather, careful and creative readings of the abundant evidence of Ovid’s career-long engagement with the Iliad and the Odyssey demonstrate a coherent and profound pattern of animated intertextuality and transformative reception. Passages and poems from th…
Arms and the Man
Arms and the Man:Wordplay and the Catasterism of Chiron in Ovid Fasti 5 Barbara Weiden Boyd In a recent essay, Ian Brookes has drawn attention to the way in which Ovid's description of the catasterism of Chiron in Fasti 5 "suppresses Chiron's hybrid nature" as centaur "in order to allow us to sympathize with him as a fellow human."1 Brookes also directs us to the ironic ambiguity used by Ovid to portray the episode's three main characters, Chiron…
Tarpeia's Tomb
Tarpeia's Tomb
Propertius on the Banks of the Eurotas
Further proof of Professor Kenney's assertion that in the case of prodelided est the syncopated form was written by Ovid as well as spoken ( CQ 36 [1986], 524) is provided by Metamorphoses 15.426ff
Virgil's Camilla and the Traditions of Catalogue and Ecphrasis (Aeneid 7.803-17)
When the Lamp Is Shattered
Ovid's Literary Loves
Celeus Rusticus
Celabitur Auctor
Arms and the Man
Arms and the Man:Wordplay and the Catasterism of Chiron in Ovid Fasti 5 Barbara Weiden Boyd In a recent essay, Ian Brookes has drawn attention to the way in which Ovid's description of the catasterism of Chiron in Fasti 5 "suppresses Chiron's hybrid nature" as centaur "in order to allow us to sympathize with him as a fellow human."1 Brookes also directs us to the ironic ambiguity used by Ovid to portray the episode's three main characters, Chiron…
General Index
General Bibliography
Index Locorum
Preliminary material
The Amores
This chapter uses literary and historical categories to provide a framework for the Amores . It looks at how Ovid invents a poetic identity for himself in the Amores . The most basic structural components of Ovid's elegiac book, juxtaposition and opposition, are techniques which Ovid also uses with poems that are less clearly to be considered pairs or thematic clusters. Ovid says that he is driven by a turbo ; one might go so far as to put Cupid …
Brill's Companion to Ovid
This volume on the Roman poet Ovid (43 BCE – 17 CE) comprises articles by an international group of fourteen scholars. Their contributions cover a wide range of topics, including a biographical essay, a survey of the major manuscripts and textual traditions, and a comprehensive discussion of Ovid’s style. The remaining chapters are devoted to focused studies of each of Ovid’s major works, with emphasis given where appropriate to the poet’s intere…
Textbook and Context
Textbook and Context:"The Next Aeneid"1 Barbara Weiden Boyd The convener of the spring 2002 CAAS panel on New Directions in Teaching and Research on Vergil, Judith Hallett, has recently championed "the personal voice" in classical scholarship;2 for that reason, I want to begin this essay with a reminder—to myself as well as to my readers—that teaching, too, is an expression of the personal voice. Every teacher who has survived the first few years…
Remedia Amoris
This chapter contains sections titled: Introduction The Metapoetic Frame Praecepta Genre(s) Further Reading
Ovid’s Early Poetry
Reviewed by: Ovid’s Early Poetry: From his Single Heroides to his Remedia Amoris by Thea S. Thorsen Barbara Weiden Boyd Thea S. Thorsen. Ovid’s Early Poetry: From his Single Heroides to his Remedia Amoris. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014. Pp. xii, 223. $95.00. ISBN 978–1-107–04041–0. The connections between Ovid’s Amores, Ars Amatoria, and Remedia Amoris are well known. The Heroides, however, have only occasionally been integrated int…
Ovid’s Circe and the Revolutionary Power of carmina in the Remedia amoris
Seeing Double
Chapter 2 focuses on the Homeric character Diomedes and his appearances in Ovid’s poetry. It begins with a detailed discussion of the scene in Iliad Book 4 in which Agamemnon chastises Diomedes for not being quicker to join the fighting, comparing him to his detriment with his father, Tydeus. The discussion focuses on a small but significant ambiguity in this episode regarding Diomedes’s response to Agamemnon, and then proceeds to a more general …
Starting from Homer
Chapter 1 surveys the place of Homer in Roman literary culture before Ovid, including the prominent place of the Iliad and Odyssey in early education and the role played by Livius Andronicus and Ennius in bringing the Greek past to Rome. It offers an overview of the character of Homeric allusiveness in Latin poetry before Ovid, especially in Catullus, Tibullus, and Propertius and the elegists. The chapter concludes with the suggestion that Ovid’s…
Homer’s Gods in Rome
Chapter 9 follows Venus, Mars, and Vulcan to Rome and examines Ovid’s reception of these Homeric divinities as the divine ancestors of the Roman people. Ovid’s internalization of Homeric repetition is complemented by distinctively Roman variations on the theme; the chapter therefore closes with a consideration of several other instances of Homeric resonance in Ovid that cluster around these gods. Two episodes in Fasti Book 3 are the focus, as Ovi…
Fathers and Sons, Part Two
Chapter 4 continues the exploration of the poetics of paternity begun in chapter 2. The father-son relationship is a productive one for Ovid, both thematically and metatextually, and he explores its implications in a number of other episodes or poems that are not explicitly Homeric in origin but that bear the stamp of Ovid’s Homeric engagement. The Daedalus and Icarus story in Metamorphoses Book 8 sets the stage for the discussion. The chapter th…
Homer in Love
Chapter 7 considers a second central theme in Ovid’s Homeric reception, desire, and its evocation through repetition. The erotic tradition of Homeric reception that Ovid inherited can be seen in the longest extant fragment of the elegiac poem Leontion , in which the Hellenistic poet Hermesianax offers a catalogue of ancient poets and the women they loved. In Tristia 1.6, Ovid expands upon the central trope of this catalogue, in which poetry is pe…
Paternity Tests
Chapter 5 is devoted to the poetics of paternity in Ovid’s exile poems. Ovid repeatedly invokes paternity in describing his poems, referring to them as his “children” and suggesting analogies between his own plight and that of some of the doomed sons in ancient myth. In Epistulae ex Ponto 3.9, Ovid compares himself to Thersites’s father, who felt affection for his son despite the contempt in which he was held by others; Ovid claims a similar indu…
Homeric Desires
Chapter 8 is devoted to Ovid’s two extended treatments of the Homeric Loves of Venus and Mars, found for the first time in Odyssey Book 8. The importance of repetition and formulaic compositional technique is central to the discussion, as Ovid repeats the Homeric tale in two very different settings and contexts. In Ars amatoria Book 2, the tale has an ostensibly didactic function that challenges Augustan mores , especially through its innovative …
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