Format:
1 online resource (xix, 669 pages)
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digital, PDF file(s).
ISBN:
9781139021586
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9780521895804
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9781009168038
Content:
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).
Note:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 16 Jan 2024)
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780521895804
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9780521895804
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1017/9781139021586
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