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Reflections in a serpent's eye : Thebes in Ovid's Metamorphoses /

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Ovid's extraordinary story of Thebes' founding and bloody unravelling spans Books 2 and 3 of his epic poem, the Metamorphoses. His bizarre refractions of the well‐ordered community mirror Ovid's own Rome and the mythohistory of its origins, most particularly as framed in Vergil's...

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Main Author: Janan, Micaela Wakil
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009.
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Ovid, > 43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D. > Metamorphoses.
Metamorphoses (Ovid)
Thebes (Greece) > In literature.
Rome > In literature.
Thèbes (Grèce) > Dans la littérature.
TRAVEL > Special Interest > Literary.
LITERARY CRITICISM > General.
Literature
Greece > Thebes
Rome (Empire)
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Call Number: PA6519.M9 J36 2009eb
 
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