About the Author

Barbara Weiden Boyd, Ph.D. (1980) in Classical Studies, University of Michigan, is Winkley Professor of Latin and Greek at Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine, USA. She is the author of Ovid’s Literary Loves: Influence and Innovation in the Amores (1997), and has published extensively on Virgil, Ovid, and other Latin authors.

Reviews

'The growth of interest in Ovid over the last half-centruy has prompted creation of various kinds of handbooks and companions to the great Roman poet, and Brill has produced one of the best…an intelligent and wll-coordinated collection of responses to the versatility of a scintillating poet.'
William S. Anderson, New England Classical Journal, 2005.
'In sum a useful and reliable volume…’
Roy Gibson, BMCR, 2003.