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.

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.