Ovid on Screen: A Montage of Attractions

by Martin M Winkler and Martin M. Winkler

This book presents the first systematic appreciation of Ovid's extensive influence on, and affinity with, modern visual culture. Some topics are directly related to Ovid; others exhibit features, characters, or themes analogous to those in his works. The book demonstrates the wide-ranging ramifications that Ovidian archetypes, especially from the Metamorphoses, have provoked in a modern artistic medium that did not exist in Ovid's time. It ranges...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1108485405
• ISBN13: 9781108485401
• Release Date: March 2020
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 462 Pages
• Weight: 2.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.2" x 9.1"