Beschreibung:
An important new exploration of the early poetry of Ovid, one of the greatest poets in the Roman and Western tradition.
Introduction; 1. Dating the young Ovid; 2. Ovidian signatures and the single Heroides; 3. The last of the great Roman poets - with the latest news; 4. The authenticity of Heroides 15; 5. Sappho among heroines; 6. Sapphic self-reflections in Ovid's Amores; 7. Art, being and nothingness in Ovid's Ars amatoria and Remedia amoris; 8. The creation of a poet.