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Since 1923 the Sammlung Tusculum has published authoritative editions of Greek and Latin works together with a German translation. The original texts are comprehensively annotated, and feature an introductory chapter. In the new volumes, additional essays delve into specific aspects of the works, illuminating their historical context and reception to the present day. The high academic quality of the new editions together with clearly written essays and annotations make the Sammlung Tusculum essential reading for students who are discovering an ancient author for the first...

Ovids Sammlung von 14 Briefen mythischer Frauen und der Dichterin Sappho sowie von drei Briefpaaren, in denen jeweils eine mythische Frau auf das Schreiben des um sie werbenden bzw. bereits von ihr geliebten Mannes antwortet, sind in ihrer Art ein einmaliges Werk innerhalb des gesamten Spektrums der antiken Literatur. Der augusteische Dichter lässt berühmte Sagengestalten wie Penelope und Medea ihre Klage über die Abwesenheit des geliebten Mannes, die in den meisten Fällen unwiderruflich ist, artikulieren. Dabei zeigt er einerseits psychologische Einfühlung, die zur Identifikation...

Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso, 43 BCE17 CE), born at Sulmo, studied rhetoric and law at Rome. Later he did considerable public service there, and otherwise devoted himself to poetry and to society. Famous at first, he offended the emperor Augustus by his "Ars Amatoria, " and was banished because of this work and some other reason unknown to us, and dwelt in the cold and primitive town of Tomis on the Black Sea. He continued writing poetry, a kindly man, leading a temperate life. He died in exile.

Ovid's main surviving works are the "Metamorphoses, " a source of inspiration to artists and...

This edition of the first book of Ovid's "Amores" was first published in 1973 by OUP. It has been kept in print by BCP because it remains an outstandlingly useful volume. It was one of two editions (the other being Gordon Williams' "Horace 'Odes' III," 1969) in which OUP pioneered a new kind of continuous running commentary particularly suited to short poems, one 'likely to be more illuminating than a series of disconnected notes on isolated problems, which may contribute little to the total understanding of the poem as the poet conceived it'. This approach was intended to promote in...