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Type: BOOK - Published: 2023-07-15 - Publisher: Cornell University Press

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Ovid's Tragic Heroines expands our understanding of Ovid's incorporation of Greek generic codes and the tragic heroines, Phaedra and Medea, while offering a new
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Authors: Nina MacLaughlin
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In fierce, textured voices, the women of Ovid's Metamorphoses claim their stories and challenge the power of myth I am the home of this story. After thousands o
Tragedy in Ovid
Language: en
Pages: 289
Authors: Dan Curley
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-07-18 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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This comprehensive study establishes the importance of an unexpected genre, tragedy, in the career of the most mercurial Western poet.
Tragedy in Ovid
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Authors: Dan Curley
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-07-18 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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Ovid is today best known for his grand epic, Metamorphoses, and elegiac works like the Ars Amatoria and Heroides. Yet he also wrote a Medea, now unfortunately l
The Ovidian Heroine as Author
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Ovid's Heroides, a catalogue of letters by women who have been deserted, has too frequently been examined as merely a lament. In a new departure, this book port