Barbara Weiden Boyd

Affiliation: Classics

Winkley Professor of Latin and Greek

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 ancient epic, Rome in the age of Augustus, Rome as a site of cultural memory and identity, and the Ovidian tradition. She has chaired the Classics Department repeatedly and has served as a co-director of the Mellon Initiative in Mediterranean Studies at ��Ƶ.

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. In addition to continuing work on a commentary on Ovid's Remedia amoris, she has recently published a book on Ovid's reception of Homer: Ovid’s Homer: Authority, Repetition, and Reception (Oxford University Press, 2017). She has a lively interest in contemporary receptions of classical themes and has published articles on the BBC-HBO series Rome and on the Odyssey theme in the AMC series Mad Men. She is currently developing a project on Nathaniel Hawthorne’s Rome.

Boyd has travelled and studied extensively in Italy, where she lived for two years while teaching classical studies at the Intercollegiate Center for Classical Studies in Rome. She is a former member of the Board of Directors of the Society for Classical Studies (formerly the American Philological Association) and the Goodwin Award Committee of the SCS/APA, and currently serves on its Program Committee. She will assume the presidency of the Vergilian Society in 2020, and is a charter member of the newly established International Ovidian Society. A past member of the executive committee of the Discussion Group on Classics and Modern Literature in the Modern Language Association, Boyd is committed to supporting and sustaining dialogue between and among the disciplines of the humanities, especially on literary and cultural topics.

Research and Scholarly 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.

Approaches to Teaching the Works of Ovid and the Ovidian Tradition (co-edited volume, with Cora Fox), in the MLA Approaches to Teaching World Literature series, 2010.

Ovid’s Homer: Authority, Repetition, and Reception, Oxford University Press, 2017.

Articles in Refereed Journals

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 Journal82 (1987) 199-207.

Reprinted in Oxford Readings in Classical Studies: Ovid, edited by Peter Knox (Oxford University Press, 2006).

“Propertius on the Banks of the Eurotas (A Note on 3.14.17-20),” Classical Quarterly 37 (1987) 527-28.

“Virtus Effeminata and Sallust’s Sempronia,” Transactions of the American Philological Association 117 (1987) 183-201.

“Non hortamine longo: An Ovidian ‘Correction’ of Virgil,” American Journal of Philology 111 (1990) 82-85.

“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.

“Celeus rusticus: A Note on Ovidian Wordplay in Fasti 4,” Classical Philology 95 (2000) 190-93.

“‘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.

“When Ovid Reads Vergil … : A Response and Some Observations,” Vergilius 48 (2002) 123-30.

“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.

“On Starting an Epic (Journey): Telemachus, Phaethon, and the Beginning of Ovid’sMetamorphoses,” Materiali e discussioni per l’analisi dei testi classici 69 (2012) 101-118.

“Ovidian Encounters with the Embassy to Achilles: Homeric Reception in Metamorphoses 8 and Heroides 3,” Paideia: Rivista di filologia, ermeneutica e critica letteraria 70 (2015) 27- 41.

Book Chapters and Invited Essays

Tum pectore sensus vertuntur varii: Reading and Teaching the End of the Aeneid,” in W.S. Anderson and L. Quartarone, eds., Approaches to Teaching Vergil’s Aeneid (MLA Publications, 2002), 80-86.

“The Amores: The Invention of Ovid,” in B.W. Boyd, ed., Brill’s Companion to Ovid (E.J. Brill, 2002), 91-116.

“Textbook and Context: ‘The Next Aeneid,’” Classical World 99.2 (2006) 166-69.

“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

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