This volume, the collective result of a group of distinguished philologists and art historians, is not just another introduction to Ovid.

The concise poetic production of Ovid is examined within the political, social, and literary contexts of his time.

This book is an accessible and comprehensible work, aimed both at a specialized audience (students, philologists of classical and English literature, literary theorists, art theorists, scholars of classical tradition) and the broader reading public who wish to gain a comprehensive - as far as possible - understanding of Ovid's work.

[Excerpt from the text on the back cover of the edition]