Author: HINDS, STEPHEN
Title: The Metamorphosis of Persephone Ovid and the Self-Conscious Muse
Description: Cambridge University Press, 1987. First Edition. Hardcover. ISBN: 052133506X. Pages tanned. Scholar's name to ffep (R. E. Fantham). Large tear to DJ (repaired with cellotape) with a few tears with some loss. ; Cambridge Classical Studies; 200 pages; Although Ovid is currently enjoying a new wave of popularity, most critics withhold from his poetry the close word-by-word readings that are necessary for a thorough understanding of it. Ovid twice treated the myth of Persephone, and Hinds's book is at first a historical inquiry--the most extensive yet done--into the double transformation in Metamorphosis 5 and Fasti 4 of the rape of Persephone, one of the great Graeco-Roman myths. The study continues as a critical exploration of Ovid's self-conscious delight in language and in writing manifested in these twin narratives, providing a feast for students of both Latin poetry and narratives in general.. Very Good in Good dust jacket .

Keywords: 052133506X Myth And Mythology Underworld Ovid Latin Literature Metamorphoses Philosophers And Philosophy Poetry & Poets


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