Book Review: Ovid, by David Wishart

You who are reading these lines will be shocked to know that I am, in fact, a Romanophile. (Well, shocked if you haven’t read my reviews of Lindsey Davis, Ruth Downie, Steven Saylor, and my constant blogging on Roman trivia…)

Anyway. This book has been on my TBR for a long while, and my only regret is that it took me so long to get to it.

What to expect

A tale of treachery and intrigue, as Wishart examines two of the worst scandals of the first decade CE in Rome. In the year 18,...