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Barbara Weiden Boyd
Winkley Professor of Latin and Greek
Spring 2009
- on leave for the 2008-09 academic year
| Phone | (207) 725-3501 |
| Title | Winkley Professor of Latin and Greek |
| Department | CLASSICS |
| Work Location | Kanbar Hall |
| bboyd@bowdoin.edu |
Barbara Weiden Boyd, Henry Winkley Professor of Latin and Greek, holds a B.A. from Manhattanville College, and an M.A. and Ph.D. in Classical Studies from the University of Michigan. In addition to offerings in Greek and Latin languages and literatures, Boyd teaches courses on classical mythology, Rome in the age of Augustus, and the Ovidian tradition.
Her scholarly specialization is Latin poetry, especially the works of Virgil and Ovid. She has published widely on a variety of Roman writers, including Virgil, Propertius, Tibullus, Ovid, and Sallust. Current projects include a commentary on Ovid's Remedia amoris and a book on texts and contexts in Augustan Rome. She has just completed an edited collection of essays, Approaches to Teaching the Works of Ovid and the Ovidian Tradition (forthcoming from the Modern Language Association).
Boyd has travelled and studied extensively in Italy, where she lived while teaching classical studies for two years at the Intercollegiate Center for Classical Studies in Rome. She is a member of the Board of Directors of the American Philological Association, and serves on the executive committee of the Discussion Group on Classics and Modern Literature in the Modern Language Association.
Selected Publications
Books
Ovid’s Literary Loves: Influence and Innovation in the Amores, The University of Michigan Press, 1997.
Brill’s Companion to Ovid (ed.), E.J. Brill Publishers, 2002.
Selected Articles
“Cydonea mala: Virgilian Word-Play and Allusion,” Harvard Studies in Classical Philology 87 (1983) 169-74.
“Tarpeia’s Tomb: A Note on Propertius 4.4,” American Journal of Philology 105 (1984) 85-87.
“Parva seges satis est: The Landscape of Tibullan Elegy in 1.1 and 1.10,” Transactions of the American Philological Association 114 (1984) 273-80.
“The Death of Corinna’s Parrot Reconsidered: Poetry and Ovid’s Amores,” The Classical Journal 82 (1987) 199-207.
--Reprinted in Oxford Readings in Classical Studies: Ovid, edited by Peter Knox (Oxford University Press, 2006).
“Virtus Effeminata and Sallust’s Sempronia,” Transactions of the American Philological Association 117 (1987) 183-201.
“Vergil’s Camilla and the Traditions of Catalogue and Ecphrasis (Aeneid 7.803-817),” American Journal of Philology 113 (1992) 213-34.
“Non enarrabile textum: Ecphrastic Trespass and Narrative Ambiguity in the Aeneid,” Vergilius 41 (1995) 71-90.
“‘Celabitur auctor’: The Crisis of Authority and Narrative Patterning in Ovid, Fasti 5,” Phoenix 54 (2000) 64-98.
“Arms and the Man: Wordplay and the Catasterism of Chiron in Ovid, Fasti 5,” American Journal of Philology 112 (2001) 67-80.
“Itala nam tellus Graecia maior erat: ‘Poetic Syncretism’ and the Divinities of Ovid, Fasti 4,” Mouseion series III.3 (2003) 13-35.
“Two Rivers and the Reader in Ovid, Metamorphoses 8,” Transactions of the American Philological Association 136 (2006) 73-108.
“A Poet Restored: Contemporary Scholarship and the Teaching of Ovid,” in R. Ancona, ed., A Concise Guide to Teaching Latin Literature (University of Oklahoma Press, 2007), 21-52.
“Becoming Augustus: The Education of Octavian,” in M.S. Cyrino, ed., Rome Season One: History Makes Television (Blackwell Publishing, 2008), 87-99.
"Remedia Amoris," in P.E. Knox, ed., A Companion to Ovid (Wiley-Blackwell, 2009) 104-119.
Textbooks
Vergil’s Aeneid: Selections from Books 1, 2, 4, 6, 10, and 12, Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers, Inc., 2001; 2nd edition, revised and with new introduction, 2004; repr., 2008.
Vergil’s Aeneid 8 and 11: Italy and Rome, Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers, Inc., 2006.
Recent Presentations
“Theseus and the Reader in Ovid, Metamorphoses 8,” Classics Faculty Literary Seminar, Cambridge University, February 26, 2003.
“Becoming Medea: Genre, Gender, and the Children of the Queen,” panel on Ovid’s reception, Modern Language Association, San Diego, CA, December 28, 2003.
“Intertextuality’s Golden Age: Aurea saecula in Virgil and Ovid,” invited speaker, panel on Intertextuality in Roman Poetry, 12th Congress of the Fédération Internationale des Études Classiques (FIEC), Ouro Preto, Brazil, August 25, 2004.
“The Invention of Sacrifice (and the Reinvention of the Golden Age) in Ovid, Fasti 1,” Classical Association of Canada, Banff, Alberta, May 13, 2005.
Invited Keynote Speaker, “Reading Daedalus: Portraits of the Artist,” Distinguished Martin Weiner Lecturer, Brandeis University; May 2, 2007.
“The Genre(s) of Ovid’s Remedia Amoris,” Classical Association of Canada, St. John’s, NL, May 22, 2007.
“Translation and Interpretation: Reading Fagles Reading Virgil,” Maine Humanities Council Winter Weekend on Virgil’s Aeneid; Bowdoin College, March 8, 2008.
“Ariadne’s Bed: Ovid’s Ariadne and Her Texts,” Classical Association of the Midwest and South, Tucson, AZ; April 16, 2008.
“Diventare Medea: Ovidio e i confini dei generi,” Alma Mater Studiorum/Università di Bologna, Dipartimento di Filologia Classica e Medioevale; Bologna, Italy, November 12, 2008; Università di Roma "Tor Vergata," Dipartimento di Antichità e Tradizione Classica; Rome, Italy, March 10, 2009.
“The (Snake) Doctor is In: Ovid on the Arrival of Aesculapius in Rome,” Yale University Classics Department, New Haven, CT, January 23, 2009.