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  3. Transformations of Ovid in Late Antiquity
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Publisher:
Cambridge University Press
Online publication date:
November 2017
Print publication year:
2017
Online ISBN:
9781316823576
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1017/9781316823576
Subjects:
Classical Studies, Classical Literature
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Book description

Ovid could be considered the original poet of late antiquity. In his exile poetry, he depicts a world in which Rome has become a distant memory, a community accessible only through his imagination. This, Ovid claimed, was a transformation as remarkable as any he had recounted in his Metamorphoses. Ian Fielding's book shows how late antique Latin poets referred to Ovid's experiences of isolation and estrangement as they reflected on the profound social and cultural transformations taking place in the fourth, fifth and sixth centuries AD. There are detailed new readings of texts by major figures such as Ausonius, Paulinus of Nola, Boethius and Venantius Fortunatus. For these authors, Fielding emphasizes, Ovid was not simply a stylistic model, but an important intellectual presence. Ovid's fortunes in late antiquity reveal that poetry, far from declining into irrelevance, remained a powerful mode of expression in this fascinating period.

Reviews

'… excellent book on Ovid’s reception in late antiquity … illustrates how productive the reuse of classical models could be in the period … intelligent, lucid, and well-produced monograph brings late Latin poetry alive.'

Scott McGill Source: Bryn Mawr Classical Review

'… excellent book on the reception of Ovid … Fielding is able to present not only Ovid's powerful legacy, but also, and perhaps more importantly, draw needed attention to the great intellectual potential in reassessing the late antique Latin poets.'

Stephen M. Kershner Source: The Classical Journal-Online

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