Ovid's Revisions. The Editor as Author. - MARTELLI, Francesca K.A.,
The Editor As Author
KORTE INHOUD
'The process of Ovid?s revisions is opaque to us, but his assertion that the Amores was revised opens the possibility of reading the surviving collection against the backdrop of the absent presence of the earlier edition, as the poet implicitly invites us to do. This is the subject of Martelli?s sophisticated reading of the Amores and substantial parts of Ovid?s other works. The book is marked by an intelligent sensibility and an acute awareness of hidden possibilities, well worth the time invested in reading and absorbing it. There are flaws?unsurprisingly in a debut monograph?but this is a work that serious (and not so serious) readers of Ovid will want to know. Martelli takes a very broad view of the term ?revision?, applying it not only to the reworked edition of the Amores, but also to the addition of Book 3 and the Remedia to the first two books of the Ars Amatoria; the six-book edition of the Fasti, which so far as we know never appeared in any earlier form; and the refashioning of the poet?s persona i...
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