Ovid scolarship

Bishop - 1

“Critics have repeatedly felt that the poems lack sincerity”

Verstraete - 1

“Sexual pleasure must be equally enjoyed by the man and woman”

D’Ambra - 1

Augustus’ moral reforms “a visionary programme to reform Roman society … it purported to revive morality”

Wallace-Hadrill - 1

Augustus “his central message was that he was leading Romans to recover the forgotten values, traditions and rites of the past”

Cristante - 1

“Moves from advice on how to conceal nature’s defects to advice on how to simulate natural defects”

Gibson - 1

Procris “a cautionary tale addressed to puellae demands a myth where the woman suffers”

Wilkinson - 1

“Mythological exempla serve to add colour to the narrative and break the monotony of the poem”

Green - 1

Procris - reinforced the double standards of Roman sexual morality