Excerpt from Ovid and the Renascence in Spain Here, too, it soon became a hopeless task to deal with the whole subject exhaustively, and if only a very small portion of what could be done has been accomplished, the result may at least serve two purposes: to throw more light on the nature of Ovid's pronounced influence in specific epochs, and to demonstrate the continuity of his prestige and authority from age to age by fol lowing the ramification of a distinct Ovidian tradition through various periods and forms of literary activity. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.