Ovid's extraordinary story of Thebes' founding and bloody unravelling spans two books of his epic poem, the Metamorphoses.

Thebes in Ovid's Metamorphoses Micaela Wakil Janan. is his ' first cause of sorrow ' ( Met . 3.138–9 ) , Cadmus cannot know what happened to Actaeon once he changed into a nondescript deer . In fact , Cadmus is generally innocent as to ...

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This course book offers a wide-ranging introduction, the original Latin text, study aids with vocabulary, and an extensive commentary.

Metamorphic Readings presents a set of original interpretations of Ovid's seminal Metamorphoses and its reception in later literature, representing the state of the art of research on the poem and enhancing the suggestiveness of Ovid's ...

These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions.

Two appendices ("Readings of manuscripts" and "Readings of editions") are added for the first time for readers of the Ovidian work. The volume closes with a "Select index of textual problems", a large "Index locorum" and an "Index nominum".