Based on a 2019 Columbia conference, this volume contains sixteen essays by a group of international scholars, which explore the hitherto understudied and underappreciated philosophical aspects of Ovid’s work. The collection questions the feasibility of separating out the categories of the "philosophical" and the "literary,” and investigates the ways in which Ovid offers unusual, controversial, or provocative reactions to received philosophical ideas. Ultimately, it makes a case for viewing the Ovidian corpus not just as a body of writings that are often philosophically inflected, but also as texts that may themselves be read as philosophically adventurous and experimental.
