The play of fictions : studies in Ovid's Metamorphoses Book 2
1995, 4th edition. Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Item #389492
ISBN: 0472102745
Notes: Revision of the author's doctoral dissertation (University of Michigan). Includes bibliographical references (pages 153-161) and index. Contents: The Crow's Tale: Met. 2.549-95 -- The Metamorphosis of the Raven: Met. 2.531-632 -- Chiron's Daughter and the Art of Prophecy: Met. 2.633-79 -- Battus and the Rewards for Telling Tales: Met. 2.676-707 -- The Petrifaction of Aglauros: Met. 2.708-835 -- Appendices: -- Swans in Metamorphoses 2 -- The Cercopes -- Text of Callimachus' Hecale (Hollis frr. 70-74). Subjects: Ovid 43 B.C.-17 or 18 A.D. Metamorphoses; Criticism and interpretation; Narration (Rhetoric) History To 1500; Fables, Latin History and criticism; Mythology, Classical, in literature; Metamorphosis in literature; Rhetoric, Ancient; Latin poetry.
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