Preview   In the six decades since Walter Wimmel’s seminal Kallimachos in Rom,[1] the Augustan poets’ debt to Callimachus has received much scholarly attention.[2] With her monograph Rival Praises, Celia M. Campbell adds another Callimachean perspective on Augustan literature. Zooming in on the first pentad of the Metamorphoses, the author discusses Ovid’s references to and … Continue reading Rival praises: Ovid and the metamorphosis of the hymnic tradition