Open Book Publishers The bavarian commentary and ovid: clm 4610, the earliest documented commentary on the metamorphoses, paperback/robin wahlsten böckerman

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The Bavarian Commentary and Ovid is the first complete critical edition and translation of the earliest preserved commentary on Ovid's Metamorphoses.

Today, Ovid's famous work is one of the touchstones of ancient literature, but we have only a handful of scraps and quotations to show how the earliest medieval readers received and discussed the poems-until the Munich Bayerische Staatsbibliothek clm 4610 .

This commentary, which dates from around the year 1100 is the fi.