Metamorphoses by Ovid | Resources

Metamorphoses For Further Reading

Brown, Sarah Annes, The Metamorphosis of Ovid: From Chaucer to Ted Hughes, Palgrave Macmillan, 2000.

Brown shows the complexity of Ovid's influences and how his work has provided inspiration for six centuries of writers, poets, composers, and painters.

Martindale, Charles, ed., Ovid Renewed: Ovidian Influences on Literature and Art from the Middle Ages to the Twentieth Century, Cambridge University Press, 1988.

With an emphasis on the influence that Ovid has had on literature (although there are some writings on the influence Ovid has had on art), this collection covers the period from the twelfth century through the twentieth century and includes the poet's influence on Chaucer, Spenser, Shakespeare, and T. S. Eliot.

Sharrock, Alison, and Rhiannon Ash, eds., Fifty Key Classical Authors, Routledge, 2002.

With essays on fifty of the major classical authors, including Ovid, Sappho, Homer, and Cicero, this...
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