![]() In addition to the monumental tomes of Boemer (Heidelberg 1969-86), there are a number of slender commentaries on individual books which offer basic and useful guidance on language, style and sources. himself), and the initial books of Ovid’s Metamorphoses still the most widely read and discussed portion of the work, a commentary on Books 1-5 inevitably involves revisiting some very familiar scholarly territory. With Ovidian studies now a major field within Latin scholarship (thanks in no small part to A. has turned his attention to the initial books of the poem, a project which presents the commentator with a rather different set of challenges. at the time, “because the stories in them are even richer than those in Books 1-5 and because many of them have never received sympathetic commentary.” A quarter of a century later A. ![]() ![]() Twenty five years ago William Anderson (henceforth “A.”) published a very useful commentary on the second pentad of Ovid’s Metamorphoses. ![]()
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