This book positions Ovid's Metamorphoses as a foundational text in the western history of environmental thought. The poem is about new bodies. Stones, springs, plants and animals materialize out of…

Reprint of the original, first published in 1882.

The late Poet Laureate presents recreations of 24 passages from Ovid’s Metamorphoses , including the stories of Phaeton, Actaon, Echo and Narcissus, Procne, Midas, and Pyramus and Thisbe.

This volume presents a new translation into English and the first detailed commentary in any language on Ovid's Amores Book 3. Aimed at both students and scholars, the translation clarifies…

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. This is the first complete commentary…

A version that has been long awaited, and likely to become the new standard. -Michael Dirda, Washington Post

Woven through all these tales are the unique histories and mythologies of the regions of Southern Italy, encompassing Sicily, Calabria, Cantania, Basilicata, Apulia and Campania. Theocritus, Virgil and Ovid evoke…

A bold new interpretive approach to Ovid's Metamorphoses. Campbell argues that the poem's first pentad draws a programmatic strain of influence from hymns to the gods, in particular conversation-and competition-with…