Barbara Weiden Boyd
Barbara Weiden Boyd (* 1952 ) is an American classical philologist and associate professor of Latin and Greek at Bowdoin College in Brunswick (Maine) .
Life
Weiden Boyd graduated with a bachelor's degree from Manhattanville College in New York and a master's degree from the University of Michigan . She then did her PhD there in Classics. She traveled and studied in Italy, where she lived for two years as a classics lecturer at the Intercollegiate Center for Classical Studies in Rome . She has served on 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 is currently a member of its program committee. In 2020 she will take over the presidency of the Vergilian Society and is a founding member of the newly formed International Ovidian Society . Her scientific specialty is Latin poetry, especially the works of Virgil and Ovid. She has published numerous publications on a wide variety of Roman writers, including Virgil , propertius , Tibullus , Ovid, and Sallust .
Books (selection)
- 1997: Ovid's Literary Loves: Influence and Innovation in the Amores. The University of Michigan Press, ISBN 978-0472107599
- 2002: Brill's Companion to Ovid. (Ed.), EJ Brill Publishers, ISBN 978-90-04-22676-0
- 2010: 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, ISBN 978-16-03-29063-0
- 2017: Ovid's Homer: Authority, Repetition, and Reception. Oxford University Press, ISBN 978-0190680046
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| SURNAME | Boyd, Barbara Weiden |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American classical philologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1952 |