Ellen Oliensis
Klio Distinguished Professor of Classical Languages and Literature, Professor of Ancient Greek & Roman Studies and Comparative Literature
Research Areas
Roman literature (especially Ovid), translation, literary form, psychoanalysis
Biography
B.A. Literature 1981 Yale University
Ph.D. Comparative Literature 1991 Harvard University
Publications
Books
Loving Writing/Ovid's Amores (Cambridge 2019)
Freud's Rome: Psychoanalysis and Latin Poetry (Cambridge 2009)
Horace and the Rhetoric of Authority (Cambridge 1998)
Recent articles
"The misadventures of Latona in Ovid, Metamorphoses 6," AJP 144 (2023) 449-71
"Why is Arachne a spider? (Ovid, Metamorphoses 6.129-45)," Dictynna 20 (2023) np
"Staging the past in Plautus' Menaechmi," MD 89 (2022) 35-66
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