Ovid’s Heroides, from which Ariadne’s story is taken, is a collection of fifteen poems written as letters from the viewpoint of Greek and Roman heroines who have been abandoned by their lovers. Twelve years after writing the Heroides, Ovid was exiled. Relinquo, with text in German, English and Latin, presents this dual motif and portrays the importance and the meaning we find in our sense of place and the bereavement we feel in the loss of place.

The depicted image contains a quote from Ovid: “When steals upon me the gloomy memory of that night which marked my latest hours in the city.”

Approximately four million tourists visit the Roman Coliseum each year. It’s probably safe to say that most of them take photographs. Professor Alain Gowing, who has created his own photographic artists’ book, is more interested in the ruins, or partial ruins, that most visitors seldom notice. His book, Roman Fragments, concentrates mainly on these lesser-known treasures.