In the first week of the March lockdown, while the rest of the country was frantically learning how to bake sourdough bread and working out with Joe Wicks, Natalie Haynes was translating Ovid.
“I didn’t know who I would see again or when… What could I do to make myself feel better?” she tells me, admitting that this is possibly “not an entirely normal response”. “Perhaps if I just translate these 21 poems of Ovid and make videos about them, everything will be alright.”
That weekly video series, entitled Ovid Not Covid, lasted five months and took viewers through The Heroides: a book of love letters from the great mythological heroines to the heroes who abandoned them.
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