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~ (Author) "In the Preface to Fables, Ancient and Modern (1700), John Dryden offers a hostile yet perceptive criticism of Ovid..." (more)
Key Phrases: aetiological preoccupations, sylleptic pun, narrative indirection, Forbes Irving, Ovid's Little Aeneid, Homeric Hymn (more...)

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Tissol's book offers ample evidence of the poem's perennial appeal. . . . His generally effective English versions of his Greek and Latin sources enrich and broaden the book, thus extending its functional importance well beyond the classics seminar. -- Review

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Hardcover: 251 pages
Publisher: Princeton University Press (August 21, 1991)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0691011028
ISBN-13: 978-0691011028
Product Dimensions: 9.5 x 6.3 x 0.9 inches
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Amazon.com Sales Rank: #2,869,281 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
aetiological preoccupations, sylleptic pun, narrative indirection, etymological wordplay, stylistic surface, narrative surface, narrative disruption, thematic character, divided sense, semantic slippage, divine interpretation, nunc quoque

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Forbes Irving, Ovid's Little Aeneid, Homeric Hymn, Paradise Last, Callimachus's Aetia, Diodorus Siculus, Telemus Eurymides

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This book cites 41 books:

Supplementum Hellenisticum (Texte Und Kommentare) by Hugh Lloyd-Jones in Front Matter, and Back Matter
Oxford Latin Dictionary by P. G. W. Glare in Front Matter, and Back Matter
Myth: Its Meaning and Functions in Ancient and Other Cultures (Sather Classical Lectures) by G. S. Kirk in Back Matter
The Gods in Epic: Poets and Critics of the Classical Tradition (Clarendon Paperbacks) by D. C. Feeney in Back Matter
The Homeric Hymns by Homer on page 143

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16 books cite this book:

Inconsistency in Roman Epic: Studies in Catullus, Lucretius, Vergil, Ovid and Lucan (Roman Literature and its Contexts) by James J. O'Hara on page 104, and Back Matter
The Metamorphosis of Ovid: From Chaucer to Ted Hughes by Sarah Annes Brown on page 10, and Back Matter
A Discourse of Wonders: Audience and Performance in Ovid's "Metamorphoses" by Stephen M. Wheeler in Front Matter, and Back Matter
Echoes and Reflections: Memory and Memorials in Ovid and Marie de France (Faux Titre 232) by SunHee Kim Gertz on page 89, and Back Matter
Epic Succession and Dissension: Ovid, Metamorphoses 13.623-14.582, and The Reinvention (Untersuchungen Zur Antiken Und Geschichte) by Sophia Papaioannou in Back Matter

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