Ovid

Gareth Williams, Columbia University , Romantic Review It is hard to imagine a VSI volume on Ovid that could be better executed in terms of the balance it achieves between its breadth of vision, on the one hand, and its eye for particularity, on the other.

Giles Dawson, Freelance Classics teacher, Oxfordshire, The Journal of Classics Teaching It has to be said immediately that the publishers have found a first-class writer-academic for the job of describing Ovid's character and range, and explaining the appeal of 'this scintillating Roman poet'.

Katharina Volk, Bryn Mawr Classical Review Ovid has found a kindred spirit in Llewellyn Morgan, who has succeeded in telling the story of the most brilliantly playful of Roman poets in 111 pages, touching all the bases and producing a pleasantly readable libellus.

Tom Holland, New Statesman Short but eye opening book.

Michael Wood, Comfort Classics A crisp, sparkling distillation of long thought.

Paul Lay, FiveBooks This one is a really loving account of Ovid, with a very simple structure. It takes you through his major works, with the Metamorphoses obviously at the centre. [...] It's a wonderful little book. I can't think of a better introduction to the work of this figure who is, arguably, the single most influential poet of antiquity.

Llewelyn Morgan is a scholar of Roman literature at Brasenose College, Oxford. He has written numerous articles on various aspects of Roman poetry, primarily focusing on the works of Virgil, Horace and Ovid. His books focus on Virgil's Georgics and on poetic metre. Morgan has been teaching at the University of Oxford for twenty years.

Acknowledgements List of Illustrations 1: Introduction: P. Ovidius Naso 2: Love Poetry 3: Letters of the Heroines 4: Metamorphoses 5: Fasti 6: Exile Poetry Further reading Index