The play of fictions : studies in Ovid's Metamorphoses Book 2 / A.M. Keith
1992, First Edition. Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Item #394694
ISBN: 0472102745
Physical description; xii, 164 pages ; 24 cm. 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 A.D. or 18 A.D. Metamorphoses. Liber 2. Narration (Rhetoric) History To 1500. Fables, Latin History and criticism. Mythology, Classical, in literature. Metamorphosis in literature. Rhetoric, Ancient. Narration (Rhetoric).
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