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

The first complete commentary in English on Ovid's Metamorphoses, covering textual interpretation, poetics, imagination, and ideology.

Alessandro Barchiesi (General editor), Phillip Hardie (Edited by)

9781009168069, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 3 July 2025

473 pages
22.9 x 15.2 x 2.4 cm, 0.68 kg

Comprising 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, imagination, and ideology – and will be useful as a teaching aid and an orientation for those who are interested in the text and its reception. Historically, the poem's audience includes readers interested in opera and ballet, psychology and sexuality, myth and painting, feminism and posthumanism, vegetarianism and metempsychosis (to name just a few outside the area of Classical Studies).

Commentary on Book 13 Philip Hardie
Commentary on Book 14 Philip Hardie
Commentary on Book 15 Philip Hardie
Bibliography Philip Hardie
Index of Proper Names (Books 1-15)
General Index (Books 1-15).

Subject Areas: Classical history / classical civilisation [HBLA1]