Product Description: It appears that fable was not recognised as a distinct literary genre in antiquity although it did exist in a recognisable form. This unique `introduction' to the history of the fable looks at both literary form and structure, and at generic history through the works of Greek and Roman authors and those fabulists who re-shaped the material of their predecessors to form new fables...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: The Roman poet Ovid is enjoying a renaissance. Though relegated to the margins in the Romantic period, since the mid-1980s he has become popular again, not only with classicists and other lovers of ancient poetry, but also with poets and prose writers...read more