Asking for the moon : an intertextual approach to metapoetic magic in Augustan love-elegy and related genres

This thesis offers a new perspective on the metapoetic use of magic in the love-elegies of Propertius, Tibullus, and Ovid, a theme which, though widely acknowledged in contemporary scholarship, has so far received little comprehensive treatment. The present study approaches the motif through its int...

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Main Author: Chadha, Zara Kaur
Published: Durham University 2014
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Online Access:http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.600946