Into the three book edition that has survived it may also have been inspired by the threefold arrangement of Horace’s original collection of odes, what we know of as “Books 1–3” Groups of five books may have been inspired by the original five book arrangement of Ovid’s first published work, his Ovid’s epic is a vast compendium of myths and lore, with an astonishingly diverse structureĪnd stunningly varied array of poetic treasures-but it also has a definite structure and deliberate arrangement of itsĬomponent parts, indeed a structure that is formidably tripartite, with a distinct division of its material into the threeĪct drama of Books 1–5 6–10 and 11–15. May be understandable, the result is oftentimes a lack of appreciation of the unity of Ovid’s epic achievement-a Product, at least in part, of the impossibility of reading the entire epic in Latin in most classes. That bookĬomplained that Ovid’s epic had suffered from a deleterious practice of selection and culling of passages for study-a To the poem, Madness Transformed: A Reading of Ovid’s Metamorphoses. Remains a lively and vigorous field of academic inquiry, as evidenced by the steady stream of monographs and articles on variousĪs it is to a single book of the epic-is in one important respect seemingly at variance with my general introduction Part of classics curricula at colleges and universities. Textbooks more advanced students (both undergraduate and graduate) read more or less extensively from the epic as a regular Not infrequently encounter Ovid relatively early in the study of the language, through excerpted stories in readers and intermediate Popular surveys of mythology such as those of a Bulfinch or an Edith Hamilton. Some of the contents of its fifteen books are familiar through the retelling, abridgment, and sometimes bowdlerization of Is one of the longest and most perennially popular poems to survive from classical antiquity.
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