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... Metamorphoses , as Ovid's contemporaries and Renaissance commentators unanimously clas- sified it , as a distinct form of the epic poem . The allegorical way of reading the Metamorphoses which flour- ished during the late Middle Ages is ...
... Metamorphoses , as Ovid's contemporaries and Renaissance commentators unanimously clas- sified it , as a distinct form of the epic poem . The allegorical way of reading the Metamorphoses which flour- ished during the late Middle Ages is ...
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... Metamorphoses by Raphael Regius ( Milan , 1493 ) . An Italian humanist and philologist , Regius attacked the practice of theological allegoresis as inappropriate to Ovid's historical and cul- tural moment . For example , Regius finds ...
... Metamorphoses by Raphael Regius ( Milan , 1493 ) . An Italian humanist and philologist , Regius attacked the practice of theological allegoresis as inappropriate to Ovid's historical and cul- tural moment . For example , Regius finds ...
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... Metamorphoses " of Ovid . Trans . A. E. Watts . Berkeley : University of California Press , 1954 ; rpt . San Francisco : North Point Press , 1980 . Ovid's " Metamorphoses , " Books 6-10 . Ed . with intro . and notes by William S ...
... Metamorphoses " of Ovid . Trans . A. E. Watts . Berkeley : University of California Press , 1954 ; rpt . San Francisco : North Point Press , 1980 . Ovid's " Metamorphoses , " Books 6-10 . Ed . with intro . and notes by William S ...
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