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Landscape in Roman literature is manifest with symbolic potential: in particular, Vergil and Ovid respond to ideologically loaded representations of abundance in nature that signal the dawn of the Augustan golden age. Vergil's Eclogues foreground a locus amoenus landscape which …

Previous scholarship has laid out some important groundwork on Ovid's use of Callimachus' Aetia as a model for the Fasti , yet some significant resemblances between the two poems have not been adequately recognized. The poems share notable structural features, and Ovid imitates …

Metamorphoses is a mythological poem by Ovid written during the Augustan morality crusade. Mary Zimmerman's play Metamorphoses, while drawing most of its content from Ovid's poem, exhibits Zimmerman's unique way of putting all the different stories together into one piece. The C…

This dissertation studies four texts: the Exeter Book, the collected poems of Baudri of Bourgueil, the Historia Vie Hierosolimitane of Gilo of Paris, and the anonymous eleventh-century Vita Ædwardi Regis. It examines and seeks to define a specific feature of these texts, which t…

The present dissertation examines the widespread presence of tropes of tragic recognition in Roman epic poetry from an interdisciplinary perspective. I argue that Roman epic poets draw at once on tragedy and ancient philosophy to address the cognitive instability generated by ci…

This project examines the function of the city of Rome in Ovid’s Ars Amatoria and Fasti. In doing so, it focuses on the ways in which Ovid plays with concepts and expectations of genre and gender in his depictions of Rome. As Ovid’s two major didactic elegies, the Ars Amatoria a…