Ovid's Homer

Ovid''s Homer examines the Latin poet''s engagement with the Homeric poems throughout his career. Boyd offers detailed analysis of Ovid''s reading and reinterpretation of a range of Homeric episodes and characters from both epics, and demonstrates the pervasive presence of Homer in Ovid''s work. The resulting intertextuality, articulated as a poetics of paternity or a poetics of desire, is particu...