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On Ovid's Metamorphoses /

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...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Williams, Gareth D. (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Columbia University Press, [2023].
Series:Core knowledge (Columbia College (Columbia University))
Subjects:
Ovid, > 43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D. > Metamorphoses.
Ovid, > 43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D. > Themes, motives.
Change in literature.
Metamorphosis in literature.
Fables, Latin > History and criticism.
Latin poetry > History and criticism.

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