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A Commentary on Ovid's Metamorphoses: Volume 1, General Introduction and Books 1-6

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A Commentary on Ovid's Metamorphoses: Volume 1, General Introduction and Books 1-6 - Barchiesi, Alessandro (General editor), and Rosati, Gianpiero (Editor)
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Comprising fifteen books and over two hundred and fifty myths, Ovid's Metamorphoses is one of the longest extant Latin poems from the ancient world and one of the most influential works in Western culture. It is an epic on desire and transgression that became a gateway to the entire world of pagan mythology and visual imagination. This, the first complete commentary in English, covers all aspects of the text - from textual interpretation to poetics, imagination, and ideology - and will be useful as a teaching aid and an ...

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A Commentary on Ovid's Metamorphoses: Volume 1, General Introduction and Books 1-6 2024, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge

ISBN-13: 9780521895798

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