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BASIC REFERENCE BIBLIOGRAPHY

Reference works

For getting a grasp of ancient poetry, some general treatments can be useful.
These include:

• The Cambridge History of Classical Literature: Volume 1 Greek Literature (esp. Chapter 18 on 'Hellenistic Literature')
• The Cambridge History of Classical Literature: Volume 2 Latin Literature Chapter 9 on 'New direction in [Roman] poetry' treats Catullus; Ch 17 on Georgics; Ch 21 on Ovid; Ch. 23 on 'Minor Figures'. There are bibliographies on individual authors at the end of each volume.
• The Oxford Classical Dictionary (OCD) (3rd edn revised 2003): articles on 'epic', 'epyllion' and on individual authors on syllabus all contain useful information and recent bibliography.
• G.B. Conte A History of Latin Literature (1995)
• S. Braund (2002) Latin Literature (London and New York)

Other

Anderson, W S ‘Form Changed: Ovid’s Metamorphoses in A. J. Boyle ed (1994) Roman Epic (London), 108-24
Barchiesi A. (1997) The Poet and the Prince: Ovid and Augustan Discourse (California)
—(2001) Speaking Volumes: Narrative and Intertext in Ovid and Other Latin Poets (London)
Barsby J. (1978) Ovid (Greece and Rome: New Surveys in the Classics: Oxford)
Binns J. W. (1973), Ovid, London-Boston.
Crump M.M. (1931) The Epyllion from Theocritus to Ovid (Oxford; reprinted by Bristol Clasical Press)
Donno E. (1963) Elizabethan Minor Epics (London)
Feeney D. (1991) The Gods in Epic (Oxford)
Galinsky K. (1975) Ovid's Metamorphoses (Oxford)
Goldhill S (1991) The Poet's Voice (Cambridge)
Griffin J. (1979) 'The Fourth Georgic, Virgil and Rome' Greece and Rome (26), 61-80
Hardie, P (2002) The Cambridge Companion to Ovid (Cambridge University Press)
Hinds, S. (1987) The Metamorphosis of Persephone (Cambridge)
Hunter R. (1988) 'Short on Heroics: Jason in the Argonautica' Classical Quarterly (38), 436-53
Hutchinson G. (1988) Hellenistic Poetry (Oxford)
Jenkyns R. (1982) 'Catullus and the idea of a masterpiece' in Three Classical Poets (Duckworth)
Laird A. (1993) 'Art and Text in Catullus 64' Journal of Roman Studies, 18-30
Ludwig W. (1965), Struktur und Einheit der Metamorphosen Ovids, Berlin
Lyne R (1978) 'The Neoteric Poets' Classical Quarterly (28), 167-87
Martindale, C (1997) The Cambridge Companion to Virgil
Otis B. (1975) Ovid as an Epic Poet 2nd edn. (Cambridge)
Putnam M. (1961) The Art of Catullus 64 Harvard Studies in Classical Philology (65) 165-25
— (2004-5) ‘Daphne’s Roots’ Hermathena 177/8: 71-89
Quinn K (1969) The Catullan Revolution (Cambridge)
Solodow J. (1988) The world of Ovid's Metamorphoses (Chapel Hill)
Toohey P. (1992) Reading Epic: An introduction to the Ancient Narratives (London)
Weiden Boyd B. (2002), Brill’s Companion to Ovid, Leiden-Boston-Koeln (with excellent general bibliography)

A good reference work for the mythological matter of Ovid’s Metamorphoses is R. Graves (1955 or any other following ed.), The Greek Myths, London.