Prospicit occasus, interdum respicit ortus : a metapoetic journey through Ovid's Phaethon, Metamorphoses 1. 748-2. 400.

The question of the Metamorphoses’ genre has largely been replaced by analyses of how the various genres react against each other within the hexameter framework of the poem. How Ovid instructs his reader to see how he breaks down strict generic divisions within the poem is, I shall argue, explicate...

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Main Author: Runacres, Ian Peter
Language:English
Published: University of British Columbia 2009
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/2429/7104