Societas Ovidiana
Announcements
Call for Papers:"Ovid's Heroides and the Rhetoric of Complaint 1550-1700"
While there has been much critical attention to Ovid's Metamorphoses
in
recent years, the significance of the Heroides in the Renaissance is
increasingly being recognised. This conference aims to explore the
significance of this text for early modern culture, and the uses to
which it
was put during the period 1550-1700. We invite papers on any aspects
of
English appropriations of the Heroides including: the rhetoric of complaint,
supplication, poetry and desire, use of epistolary form, canonicity,
"Englishings", adaptations, ventriloquism, the status of the female
"voice",
pathos, bathos, fame, heroism, anti-heroism, abandonment, despair.
This list
is not intended to be exhaustive of course, and we would welcome fresh
perspectives and ways of thinking about this text. The conference will
be on
25 November 2005 or on 25 and 26 November 2005. It will be held at
Birkbeck
College, Malet Street, London. Agreed speakers include: Prof H.Andreadis,
Prof L. Enterline, Dr Danielle Clarke, Dr Helen Moore.
Please send proposals of 200-300 words to both Alison Thorne (Strathclyde)
a.thorne@strathclyde.ac.uk, and Sue Wiseman (Birkbeck) s.wiseman@bbk.ac.uk
by Friday 27 May 2005
Conference:
11-13 March 2005
Metamorphosis: The Changing Face of Ovid in Medieval and Early Modern Europe
Keynote Addresses by Frank Coulson, Marilyn Desmond, & Ralph Hexter
Link to Conference Program:
Click on "Conferences" and then "Annual Conference"
Links
The following links can be useful for the
study of Ovid's influence. Please send additional suggestions to
Jess
Paehlke.
Recent Ovidian Bibliography (Sean Redmond)
Traditio classicorum: Ovid (Charles Lohr) -- bibliography of Nachleben of all classical authors
Ovid Project (Hope Greenberg, Univ. of Vermont) -- 17th c. illustrated versions of the Metamorphoses
Ovid im WWW, die Homepage (Ulrich Schmitzer, Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg) -- lots of links
Ovids Metamorphosen Server (Uni. Marburg)
The Latin Library:
Ovid -- full text versions of Ovid's works
