Approaches to Teaching the Works of Ovid and the Ovidian Tradition

Barbara Weiden Boyd is Henry Winkley Professor of Latin and Greek at Bowdoin College. She specializes in the literature of the late Roman Republic and early principate, especially the poetry of Vergil and Ovid. Her publications include a monograph on Ovid's Amores and Brill's Companion to Ovid as well as a textbook on selections from Vergil's Aeneid for use in high schools and colleges. Her projects include a commentary on Ovid's Remedia amoris. Cora Fox is assistant professor of English at Arizona State University. She is the author of Ovid and the Politics of Emotion in Elizabethan England (2009) and has published on how Ovidianism shapes late Elizabethan English literature and culture. Her current projects include a study of how classicism accomplishes cultural work in Renaissance popular culture.

"While it is mainly pitched at pedagogues, this intelligently edited group of essays will be of great use to anyone interested in the relevance of Ovid's writings and their afterlives for present-day sensibilities." --Liz Oakley-Brown, Lancaster University "This book succeeds well in its admirable aim of assisting instructors and provides extensive help both for those teaching Ovid and the reception of Ovid for the first time and for those who would like to broaden and enliven their existing lecture courses in those areas." --P. Murgatroyd, McMaster University "This book is unusually helpful to the broad teaching community. It will be welcomed by classicists, teachers of literature in many languages, historians of gender, historians of visual arts, and teachers in many areas of general college education and secondary education." --Theresa Krier, Macalester College