Language, life and metamorphosis in Ovid’s Roman backstory

Diana Spencer

doi:10.5040/9781350268975.ch-009

Language, life and metamorphosis in Ovid’s Roman backstory

Classics, Ancient History and Archaeology

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed) › peer-review

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Ovid's Metamorphoses and the Environmental Imagination
Editors	Giulia Sissa, Francesca Martelli
Place of Publication	London
Publisher	Bloomsbury Publishing
Chapter	9
Pages	183-199
Number of pages	17
Edition	1st
ISBN (Electronic)	9781350268975, 9781350268968 (Epub & Mobi), 9781350268951 (PDF)
ISBN (Print)	9781350268944
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.5040/9781350268975.ch-009
Publication status	Published - 24 Aug 2023

Publication series

Name	Ancient Environments
Publisher	Bloomsbury Publishing

Keywords

Ovid
Virgil
Varro
Catullus
agriculture
classics
ancient history
Ancient Rome
Environmentalism
ecology

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Classics
Agricultural and Biological Sciences (miscellaneous)
Literature and Literary Theory

UN SDGs

This output contributes to the following UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

Access to Document

10.5040/9781350268975.ch-009

2 Book
2 Chapter (peer-reviewed)
1 Article

‘Piantare una scena’ nelle Georgiche di Virgilio
Spencer, D., 6 Jan 2024, (Accepted/In press) In: Scienze dell’Antichità. 30, 1, p. 305-316
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Language and Authority in de Lingua Latina: Varro's Guide to Being Roman
Spencer, D., May 2019, Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press. 424 p. (Wisconsin Studies in Classics)
Research output: Book/Report › Book
Aesthetic, sociological and exploitative attitudes to landscape in Greco-Roman literature, art and culture
Spencer, D., Jan 2017, (E-pub ahead of print) Oxford Handbooks Online: Scholarly Research Reviews. Williams, G. (ed.). Oxford University Press
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed) › peer-review
Vitruvius, Landscape and Heterotopias: How ‘otherspaces’ enrich Roman identity
Spencer, D., Dec 2015, The Routledge Handbook of Identity and the Environment in the Classical and Early Medieval Worlds. Kennedy, R. & Jones-Lewis, M. (eds.). London: Routledge, p. 171-191
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed) › peer-review
Roman Landscape: Culture and Identity: Greece & Rome New Surveys in the Classics 39
Spencer, D., 24 Feb 2011, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 252 p.
Research output: Book/Report › Book

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Language, life and metamorphosis in Ovid’s Roman backstory

Publication series

Keywords

ASJC Scopus subject areas

UN SDGs

Access to Document

Research output

‘Piantare una scena’ nelle Georgiche di Virgilio

Language and Authority in de Lingua Latina: Varro's Guide to Being Roman

Aesthetic, sociological and exploitative attitudes to landscape in Greco-Roman literature, art and culture

Vitruvius, Landscape and Heterotopias: How ‘otherspaces’ enrich Roman identity

Roman Landscape: Culture and Identity: Greece & Rome New Surveys in the Classics 39

Cite this