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

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 pa...

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Main Authors: Barchiesi, Alessandro 1955- (Author), Rosati, Gianpiero 1951- (Author)
Other Authors: Brady, Erin (Translator), Davis, Theresa (Translator) (Translator)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge Cambridge University Press 2024
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Summary: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 orientation for those who are interested in the text and its reception. Historically, the poem's audience includes readers interested in opera and ballet, psychology and sexuality, myth and painting, feminism and posthumanism, vegetarianism and metempsychosis (to name just a few outside the area of Classical Studies)
Item Description:Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 16 Jan 2024)
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (xxvi, 758 Seiten)
ISBN:9781139047272
DOI:10.1017/9781139047272

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