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Pages: 382
Authors: Philip R. Hardie
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2002-02-07 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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Ovid's poetry is haunted obsessively by a sense both of the living fullness of the texts and of the emptiness of these 'insubstantial pageants'. This major stud
Ovid As An Epic Poet
Language: en
Pages: 466
Authors: Brooks Otis
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2010-06-10 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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Professor Otis shows that the unity of Ovid's Metamorphoses is not in the linkage but in the order or succession of episodes, motifs and ideas.
Metamorphoses: Books I-VIII
Language: en
Pages: 500
Authors: Ovid
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Ovid: A Very Short Introduction
Language: en
Pages: 145
Authors: Llewelyn Morgan
Categories: Literary Collections
Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-09-24 - Publisher: Oxford University Press

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"Vivam" is the very last word of Ovid's masterpiece, the Metamorphoses: "I shall live." If we're still reading it two millennia after Ovid's death, this is by d
The Poetics of Latin Didactic
Language: en
Pages: 288
Authors: Katharina Volk
Categories: Didactic poetry, Latin
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This work offers a theoretical look at Latin didactic poems. It discusses the characteristics that make a poem didactic from the points of view of both theory a