"Soucy's Commentary gives lavishly helpful guidance to the piecemeal reader, noticing links and making comparisons between different tales. . . . He's refreshingly sensitive to the way contemporary concerns with sexual and identity politics can feel urgently addressed by the Metamorphoses. Equally refreshing, from the other side, is the fact that as a scholar he feels the value and importance of seeing past attitudes clearly, neither discreetly veiling elements in them that might affront a contemporary sensibility - as many translators have done with divine rapes - nor reading them as if Ovid were our contemporary and saw life as we do."-- "The High Window"

"Soucy's version of the Metamorphoses which is dynamic, attractive, and up to date in every way--in its laudable close engagement with the latest critical Latin text, its focus on the politics of sex, race, and gender, and its lively presentation of Ovid to the latest generation of younger readers."
-- "Translation and Literature"