A Commentary on Ovid's Metamorphoses: Volume 3, Books 13–15 and Indices

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A Commentary on Ovid's Metamorphoses: Volume 3, Books 13–15 and IndicesComprising fifteen books and over two hundred and fifty myths, Ovid's Metamorphoses is one of the longest extant Latin poems from the ancient world and one of the most influential works in Western culture. It is an epic on desire and transgression that became a gateway to the entire world of pagan mythology and visual imagination. This, the first complete commentary in English, covers all aspects of the text from textual interpretation to poetics,

Some are public poems

the function of sex and procreation in the family and society

from his letters

Ένα πρωί του Νοέμβρη

Many critics

becomes a not always perfect shelter from hardship

commentaries on examples of Latin prose style - passages from great Latin prose writers focus attention on imitating real Latin usage

From a muddy settlement on the banks of the Tiber to the glittering court of Constantinople

The curious thing was that he had not only written an early draft of the last part of the walk

και δεν ήμουν από αυτές που έδιναν τέτοια περιθώρια

Part Two includes an analysis of Thucydides' account of the Olympic games of 420 BC

the beginnings of life on earth