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100 1  Williams, Gareth D.,|eauthor. 
245 10 On Ovid's Metamorphoses /|cGareth Williams. 
264  1 New York :|bColumbia University Press,|c[2023] 
300    xi, 175 pages :|billustrations ;|c23 cm. 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
336    still image|bsti|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 
338    volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 
490 1  Core knowledge 
504    Includes bibliographical references and index. 
505 00 |tIntroduction --|tDiversity, idiosyncrasy, and self-
       discovery in the Metamorphoses --|tThe liabilities of 
       language : change and instability in Ovid's world of words
       --|tThe path of deviance : sexual morality and the 
       incestuous urge in the Metamorphoses --|tRough justice : 
       victimization, revenge, and divine punishment in the 
       Metamorphoses. 
520    "Ovid was hardly the first Greco-Roman writer to treat the
       theme of metamorphic myth, but his poem of transformation 
       was itself transformative in the literary landscape of 
       Augustus' Rome. Breathtakingly original in the scale of 
       its intellectual and creative ambition, in many ways it 
       changed the course of Latin literary history through the 
       influence it exerted on successive generations of poets at
       Rome. From Late Antiquity onwards, through the Middle Ages
       and the Renaissance into the Early Modern period and far 
       beyond down to the present day, the work has stood the 
       test of time as one of the most influential cultural 
       legacies of ancient Rome. Gareth David Williams 
       demonstrates how Ovid's Metamorphoses is not just a 
       colorful collection of stories about change, but a study 
       of change itself. Perspectives are constantly shifting, 
       appearances deceive, and reality is always a work in 
       progress. The motives that cause different characters to 
       act as they do are often slippery, mixed, and hard to pin 
       down. Williams asks why this is, and explores what Ovid 
       was aiming to achieve in creating this changeful world at 
       the dawn of the first century CE. He also shows why Ovid 
       speaks so eloquently of and to the modern moment. Williams
       is centrally concerned with the Metamorphoses as a text of
       our times. What work can the poem do with and for us now 
       in the 21st century? How can it inform our experience 
       amidst the uncertainties of modern life?"--|cProvided by 
       publisher. 
600 00 Ovid,|d43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D.|tMetamorphoses. 
600 00 Ovid,|d43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D.|xThemes, motives. 
650  0 Change in literature. 
650  0 Metamorphosis in literature. 
650  0 Fables, Latin|xHistory and criticism. 
650  0 Latin poetry|xHistory and criticism. 
830  0 Core knowledge (Columbia College (Columbia University))