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Final Exam Information

How to cite primary sources

Click here to access Allen and Greenough online.

Handouts on prosody, scansion, and style:

  1. Ovidian Style Guide
  2. Some notes on longs and short vowels
  3. Prosody and Scansion

Handouts on the research project:

  1. Research Project
  2. Presentation Guidelines
  3. How to start and organize your research paper

 

Readings that you may find useful as you begin your research:

Introduction to Hejduk, Julia Dyson. The Offense of Love. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2014. This introduction includes a comprehensive list of metaphors found in Ovid’s Ars Amatoria on pages 22-28. Themes include war, farming/plants/domestic animals, sailing, hunting (by humans and dogs), chariot racing/driving, religion, natural phenomena, games/gambling, theater, fishing, bird-catching, hunting (by wild animals), animals, disease/medicine.

Ormand, Kirk. Controlling Desires. Sexuality in Ancient Greece and Rome. Westport, CT: Praeger Publishers, 2009. (“Rome and Roman Sex,” 128-45.)

Skinnner, Marilyn. Sexuality in Greek and Roman Culture. Malden, MA: Wiley Blackwell, 2014. (Republican and Augustan Rome: The Soft Embrace of Venus.”)

Alston, Richard. “Arms and the Man. Soldiers, masculinity and power in Republican and Imperial Rome.” When men were men. Masculinity, power and identity in classical antiquity. Eds. Lin Foxhall and John Salmon. New York: Routledge, 1998. 205-223.

If you’re not sure where to start looking for information on your topic, consider consulting this article, which reviews scholarship on Ovid (the bibliography from this book appears below):Green. Steven J. “Lessons in Love: Fifty Years of Scholarship on the Ars Amatoria and Remedia Amoria.” The Art of Love. Bimillennial Essays on Ovid’s Ars Amatoria and Remedia Amoris. Eds. Roy Gibson, Steven Green, and Alison Sharrock. New York: Oxford University Press, 2006. 1-20.

Bibliography, The Art of Love. Bimillennial Essays on Ovid’s Ars Amatoria and Remedia Amoris.

 

Ovid, Ars Amatoria, lexicon, Book One, Paul Murgatroyd, Ovid With Love.

Hollis, Ars Amatoria commentary, lines 77-176.

Click here for information about the temple of Mars Ultor. 

Hollis, Ars Amatoria commentary, lines 177-261