Philosophy in Ovid, Ovid as Philosopher successfully demonstrates that readers can find a great deal more engagement with philosophy in the works of an author who has usually been written off as excessively ludic and rhetorically flashy, and I take this as a positive sign for future directions in Ovidian scholarship... Offer Ovidian scholarship (and Latin literary studies more broadly) a potential pathway out of the inescapable labyrinth of hunting for intertexts as mere Hellenistic games.
Katharina Volk is Professor of Classics at Columbia University and the author of numerous books, including The Poetics of Latin Didactic, Manilius and his Intellectual Background, and The Roman Republic of Letters.
Gareth D. Williams is Professor of Classics at Columbia University. His previous books include The Cosmic Viewpoint and Pietro Bembo on Etna. Together, Volk and Williams edited the collection Roman Reflections.