Note 45 — Chapter VII · POETIC IN ANCIENT DRAMA AND NARRATIVE

Ovid has a large place in every comprehensive history of Latin literature (e.g., in W. Y. Sellar’s volume on Horace and the Elegiac Poets in his Roman Poets of the Augustan Age, Oxford, 1892), and is discussed at least briefly in the compends (e.g., C. T. Cruttwell’s History of Roman Literature, American edition, New York, 1890). The last edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica has an extensive appreciation by S. G. Owen, whose critical edition of Tristia provides a bibliography of Ovidiana. Of English translations the most accessible are those in the Loeb Classical Library: of Heroides and Amores by Grant Showerman, of Metamorphoses by F. J. Miller, both with introductions and bibliographical notes.