"If Ovid can seem at times to us in the 21st century a compellingly modern and contemporary voice, so did he in the 16th, 12th, and back in the 1st" - @llewelyn_morgan
This is going to be great...
"Quintilian, it is fair to say, had no sense of humour" - @llewelyn_morgan #Ovid
"There can be only true originality in the presence of established rules" - @llewelyn_morgan.
Good for Roman poetry, good for much else as well... #Ovid
"Less poetry about love than poetry about love poetry" - @llewelyn_morgan on the Amores #Ovid
"When Ovid does smut, you can at least be sure it's smut with a long & prodigious poetric pedigree" - @llewelyn_morgan
Startled to learn from @llewelyn_morgan that "copies of the Ars Amatoria were still being barrred entry by United States Customs as recently as 1928." #Ovid
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