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In contrast to the comparative neglect of the Fasti, the Metamorphoses has been the subject of several important books and monographs in the last two decades. The most influential of these has been Otis’s book Ovid as an Epic Poet, which has focused attention on three aspects of the work, its relation to epic, its structure, and its attitude to Augustus.
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The time is ripe for a new critical edition of Met. to replace that of Magnus (Berlin, 1914), whose deficiencies are outlined by F. W. Lenz, Ovid’s Metamorphoses: Prolegomena to a Revision of Hugo Magnus’ Edition (Dublin / Zurich, 1967). Editions are forthcoming in the Teubner and O.C.T. series (by Anderson and Tarrant respectively); meanwhile G. M. Edwards’s text in Postgate’s Corpus Poetarum Latinorum (London, 1905) has some claim to be the best available. There is no lack of recent English translations; that by A. E. Watts (Berkeley, 1954) is outstanding, and the versions of M. Innes (Harmondsworth, 1955) in prose and R. Humphries (Bloomington, 1955) and H. Gregory (New York, 1958) in verse all have their merits. The only serviceable commentary on the whole work is the Haupt-Ehwald one (10th edn. Zurich / Dublin, 1966); it is being superseded by that of F. Bömer, which has so far reached Book VII (Heidelberg, i. 1969, ii. 1976, iii. 1977). The English-speaking student is served by the separate editions of A. G. Lee (Book I: Cambridge, 1953), W. S. Anderson (Books VI-X: Norman, 1972), A. S. Hollis (Book VIII: Oxford, 1970), and G. M. H. Murphy (Book XI: London, 1972). The books by Otis and Galinsky provide important general discussions of Met.; there are also valuable monographs by von Albrecht, Ludwig, Bernbeck, Segal, and Due. There is a bibliography for Met. (from 1914 to 1965) by von Albrecht in his revision of Haupt-Ehwald (i. 457 ff.).