Barbara Weiden Boyd
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Repitition in literature is often a matter of fierce debate: What separates creative exchange from plagiarism? In Ovid's Homer, Barbara Weiden Boyd examines the Latin poet's nuanced engagement with the Homeric poems throughout his career. Boyd offers a detailed analysis of Ovid's reading and reinterpretation of a range of Homeric episodes and characters to both demonstrate and delineate the pervasive presence of HOmer in Ovid's work. The resulting...