The Golden Ass (Metamorphoses)

...including Director of Studies in Classics, Senior Tutor, Librarian, and Domestic Bursar. His publications include a critical edition of Ovid’s amatory works (1961; second edition, 1995) and editions with commentary on Lucretius’ De rerum natura III (1971), Apuleius’ Cupid and Psyche (1990), and Ovid’s Heroides XVI–XXI (1996). He is currently preparing a commentary on Books VII–IX of Ovid’s Metamorphoses, which will appear in a five-volume edition of the complete poem. In 1968, he served as Sather Professor of Classical Literature at the University of California at Berkeley; his lectures were published in 1974 as The Classical Text (Italian translation, 1995). He is a Fellow of the British Academy and a Foreign Member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. He is a past President of the Joint Association of Classical Teachers and the Classical Association, and he is currently President of The Horatian Society.