Aims and Scope

Ovidius, the Journal of the International Ovidian Society is an online academic journal sponsored by the International Ovidian Society. It is the first journal wholly devoted to scholarship on the Latin poet Ovid, as well as the many afterlives of his work. We eagerly welcome contributions on any aspect of Ovid’s poetry or Ovidian studies more broadly, and the full range of Ovidian receptions and influences, literary and otherwise, from any methodological approach.  We also accept translations and pieces of original creative writing with an Ovidian theme. And we especially welcome contributions – of any sort – that are innovative, or which come from junior and historically underrepresented scholars.

Ovidius, like the IOS and like Ovid himself, is wholly international, and features articles written in English, French, German, and Italian. The editors, however, cannot take responsibility for undertaking line-by-line correction of a text in which the Author is not fluent. Each article is preceded by an abstract in English and (where relevant) in the language in which it is written.

We do not publish book reviews, although we are interested in learned review discussions. (Please contact the Editors with a brief proposal for such a discussion.) We also accept translations and pieces of original creative writing with an Ovidian theme. 

Ovidius is open access, and freely available on the web.