The Public Voice of Women
By Mary Beard Abstract: Beard analyses the culture surrounding women and public speaking in both Greek and Roman culture and literature, notably Homer’s Odyssey and Ovid’s Metamorphoses, drawing connections to the…
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Rape, Lost in Translation: How translators of Ovid’s “Metamorphoses” turn an assault into a consensual encounter
By Stephanie McCarter Abstract: In this article, McCarter analyses the Leucothoe’s rape in Ovid’s Metamorphoses and compares how various translations have obscured and misinterpreted the language to portray the…
@EmilyRCWilson Scholia
By Emily Wilson In this compilation of selected Twitter threads, Dr Emily Wilson, the first female scholar to translate Homer’s Odyssey, gives insight into the nuances of Greek translation, as well as analyses on a…
Ovid’s Women of the Year: Narratives of Roman Identity in the Fasti
by Angeline C. Chiu Abstract: Roman love-poet Ovid, best known for the epic Metamorphoses, offers in his Fasti the self-proclaimed goal of exploring and explicating the Roman calendar. Published in his maturity circa…
The War with God: Theomachy in Roman Imperial Poetry
By Pramit Chaudhuri Abstract: This book is the first large-scale study of conflict between humans and gods (‘theomachy’) in Latin epic and tragic poetry. Theomachy informs some of the most influential works in the…
The Poetics of Power in Augustan Rome: Latin Poetic Responses to Early Imperial Iconography
By Nandini B. Pandey Abstract: Augustus’ success in implementing monarchical rule at Rome is often attributed to innovations in the symbolic language of power, from the star marking Julius Caesar’s deification to…
Duplicitous Simplicity in Ovid, Amores 1
By Molly Pasco-Pranger Published in The Classical Quarterly, New Series, Vol. 62, No. 2 (DECEMBER 2012), pp. 721-730
Brill’s Companion to Roman Tragedy
Edited by George W. M. Harrison Editing Romans (Republican) tragedy : challenges and possible solutions / Gesine Manuwald — Argo killed Hippolytus : Roman tragedy in the (Meta- ) theatre / Mario Erasmo — Roman trafed :…
Ille ego’: (Mis)Reading Ovid’s Elegiac Persona
By Katharina Volk Article in Antike Und Abendland, Volume 51, Issue 1, pages 83-96 (2008) View through De Gruyter
In the Flesh: Embodied Identities in Roman Elegy
By Erika Zimmermann Damer Abstract: In the Flesh deeply engages postmodern and new materialist feminist thought in close readings of three significant poets -Propertius, Tibullus, and Ovid- writing in the early years…