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A Commentary on Ovid's Metamorphoses

By Alessandro Barchiesi

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A Commentary on Ovid's Metamorphoses

By Alessandro Barchiesi

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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 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).
Product details
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
474
Release Date:
2024-04-30
Publication Date:
2025-11-03
Publisher:
Cambridge University Press
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
0521895812
ISBN13:
9780521895811
Weight:
831 g
Height:
157 cm
Width:
235 cm
Thickness:
30 cm
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