Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Preface ix
4. PART ONE. Alternatives, Diagnoses, and Translations
5. 1. A Galen for Lovers: Medical Readings of Ovid in Medieval and Early Renaissance Spain 3
6. 2. Mythography and the Artifice of Annotation: Sánchez de Viana’s Metamorphoses (and Ovid) 20
7. 3. Torquemada’s Ovidian Alternatives 37
8. 4. Ovid’s Mysterious Months: The Fasti from Pedro Mexía to Baltasar Gracián 56
9. PART TWO. Ovid and Cervantes
10. 5. Ovid, Cervantes, and the Mirror: Narcissus and the Gods Transformed 77
11. 6. Forging Modernity: Vulcan and the Iron Age in Cervantes, Ovid, and Vico 97
12. 7. Cervantes Transforms Ovid: The Dubious Metamorphoses in Don Quijote 116
13. PART THREE. Poetic Fables
14. 8. The Mirror of Narcissus: Imaging the Self in Garcilaso de la Vega’s Second Eclogue 137
15. 9. Circe’s Swan: The Poet, the Patron, and the Power of Bewitchment 158
16. 10. Ovid Transformed: Cristóbal de Castillejo as Conflicted Cosmopolitan 175
17. 11. Ovid’s ‘Hermaphroditus’ and Intersexuality in Early Modern Spain 191
18. PART FOUR. Ovidian Fame
19. 12. Ovidian Fame: Garcilaso de la Vega and Jorge de Montemayor as Orphic Voices in Early Modern Spain and the Contamino of the Orpheus and Eurydice Myth 203
20. 13. Eros, Vates, Imperium: Metamorphosing the Metamorphoses in Mythological Court Theatre (Lope de Vega’s El Amor enamorado and Calderón’s Laurel de Apolo) 228
21. 14. Tirso’s Counter-Ovidian Self-Fashioning: Deleitar aprovechando and the Daughters of Minyas 244
22. 15. Noble Heirs to Apollo: Tracing African Genealogy through Ovidian Myth in Juan de Miramontes’s Armas antárticas 262
23. Contributors 281
24. Index 285