In this classic study, Brooks Otis presents Virgil as a radically different poet from any of his Greek or Roman predecessors. Virgil molded the ancient epic tra

Professor Otis shows that the unity of Ovid's Metamorphoses is not in the linkage but in the order or succession of episodes, motifs and ideas.

Virgil became a school author in his own lifetime and the centre of the Western canon for the next 1800 years, exerting a major influence on European literature

A new, comprehensive study of Virgil's Eclogues that reinterprets an ancient text and genre as imaginative fiction.

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest m