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  title info:
    title: On Ovid's Metamorphoses
  name:
    name part: Williams, Gareth D.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2023
    copyright date: 2023
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xi, 175 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
  abstract: Ovid was hardly the first Greco-Roman writer to treat the theme of metamorphic myth, but his poem of transformation was itself transformative in the literary landscape of Augustus' Rome. Breathtakingly original in the scale of its intellectual and creative ambition, in many ways it changed the course of Latin literary history through the influence it exerted on successive generations of poets at Rome. From Late Antiquity onwards, through the Middle Ages and the Renaissance into the Early Modern period and far beyond down to the present day, the work has stood the test of time as one of the most influential cultural legacies of ancient Rome. Gareth David Williams demonstrates how Ovid's Metamorphoses is not just a colorful collection of stories about change, but a study of change itself. Perspectives are constantly shifting, appearances deceive and reality is always a work in progress. The motives that cause different characters to act as they do are often slippery, mixed and hard to pin down. Williams asks why this is, and explores what Ovid was aiming to achieve in creating this changeful world at the dawn of the first century CE. He also shows why Ovid speaks so eloquently of and to the modern moment. Williams is centrally concerned with the Metamorphoses as a text of our times. What work can the poem do with and for us now in the 21st century? How can it inform our experience amidst the uncertainties of modern life?
  table of contents: Introduction -- Diversity, idiosyncrasy, and self-discovery in the Metamorphoses -- The liabilities of language : change and instability in Ovid's world of words -- The path of deviance : sexual morality and the incestuous urge in the Metamorphoses -- Rough justice : victimization, revenge, and divine punishment in the Metamorphoses.
  note: Gareth Williams.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages [165]-169) and index.
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Ovid
      name part: 43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Ovid
      name part: 43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D
    topic: Themes, motives
  subject:
    topic: Change in literature
  subject:
    topic: Metamorphosis in literature
  subject:
    topic: Fables, Latin
    topic: History and criticism
  subject:
    topic: Latin poetry
    topic: History and criticism
  classification: PA6519.M9 W55 2023
  classification: 873/.01
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Core knowledge (Columbia College (Columbia University))
  identifier: 9780231200707
  identifier: 0231200706
  identifier: 9780231200714
  identifier: 0231200714
  identifier: 9780231553759
  identifier: 2022027557
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 220610
    record change date: 20231006163404.1
    record identifier: in00004647201