P.E. Knox (ed.), Oxford Readings in Ovid

Abstract

This new collection of articles on Ovid joins a long list of predecessors in the same series. Such a collection would have been unimaginable only 30 years ago, when Virgil so held sway that his poetic successors were more or less ignored. It is not surprising then that this book contains only one article that is over 30 years old (E.J. Kenney’s 1976 classic, ‘Ovidius Prooemians’, the only selection from that decade), with most dating from the 1980s and 1990s.