Ovid's poetry is haunted obsessively by a sense both of the living fullness of the texts and of the emptiness of these 'insubstantial pageants'. This major stud
"Metamorphoses Ovid Translated by A. D. Melville and Edited with introduction and notes by E. J. Kenney OXFORD WORLD'S CLASSICS Metamorphic Readings Transformat
The influence on Ovid of Hesiod, the most important archaic Greek poet after Homer, has been underestimated. Yet, as this book shows, a profound engagement with