John Godwin was for many years Head of Classics at Shrewsbury School, UK. His publications include Ovid: Metamorphoses III An Extract (Bloomsbury, 2013) and Ovid Heroides: A Selection (Bloomsbury, 2016), both text editions for OCR set texts.
[Godwin] is encouraging the able students to think for themselves, to beware the trap of thinking that there must be a ‘right’ answer, and to help them see the study of Latin literature as not simply knowing how the words are to be translated, but as a stimulating aesthetic and intellectual adventure. And all this in barely over one hundred pages. It is a veritable multum in parvo. * Classics for All Reviews *