Hill has just completed a text of the poem with English translation and commentary (keyed to the translation) in four volumes for Aris & Phillips 5 the projected multi-author Fondazione Valla commentary on the poem under the direction of Alessandro Barchiesi is eagerly awaited and now Cambridge University Press has issued Neil Hopkinson’s commentary on Metamorphoses 13, a welcome addition to the Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics series which published three Ovid commentaries in the 1990s and currently has three more under contract. 1-5 to complement his popular school edition of books 6-10 4 D.E. Anderson has recently put out a commentary on Met. 2 Long rather neglected by commentators in the English-speaking academic world, the Metamorphoses are now finally beginning to receive their share of scholarly and school commentaries.

1 This renewed interest in the Metamorphoses can be seen, at least in part, as a response to the impetus given Ovidian studies with the publication over the course of seventeen years (1969-86) of the monumental German commentary in seven volumes by Franz Bömer. The last fifteen years or so have seen an explosion of critical interest in Ovid-especially the Metamorphoses but including as well every part of his vast elegiac corpus-in Anglo-American scholarship and a resulting proliferation of commentaries on his poetry.

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