Ebook: Metamorphoses III : an extract : 511-733
Author: Godwin John, Ovid
- Tags: Ovid -- 43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D. -- Metamorphoses. Literature.
- Series: Translations of Christian literature. Series II Latin texts
- Year: 2014
- Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
- Language: Latin
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Metamorphoses is an epic poem but is very different from what we expect in an epic. Original, inventive and charming, the poem tells the stories of myths featuring transformations, from the creation of the universe to the death and deification of Julius Caesar. Book III concentrates on the House of Thebes, and this selection details the story of Pentheus and his tragic end after refusing to acknowledge the god Read more...
Abstract: Metamorphoses is an epic poem but is very different from what we expect in an epic. Original, inventive and charming, the poem tells the stories of myths featuring transformations, from the creation of the universe to the death and deification of Julius Caesar. Book III concentrates on the House of Thebes, and this selection details the story of Pentheus and his tragic end after refusing to acknowledge the god Bacchus. This edition contains the Latin text as well as in-depth commentary notes which provide language support, explanation of difficult words and phrases, and analysis of literary fe