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Page 133
... gods , " Satan adopts a rhetorical ploy contained in Ovid's manual of seduction , the Ars Amatoria 1.637 : " expedit , esse deos et , ut expedit , esse putemus ” ( if it is expedient that there be gods , when expedient , let there be gods ) ...
... gods , " Satan adopts a rhetorical ploy contained in Ovid's manual of seduction , the Ars Amatoria 1.637 : " expedit , esse deos et , ut expedit , esse putemus ” ( if it is expedient that there be gods , when expedient , let there be gods ) ...
Page 198
... gods had touched the little household gods and , stooping , came in by the low door , the old man , setting out a bench , bade them rest their legs . The relationship between deity and magnitude enters this scene comically , both when the ...
... gods had touched the little household gods and , stooping , came in by the low door , the old man , setting out a bench , bade them rest their legs . The relationship between deity and magnitude enters this scene comically , both when the ...
Page 199
... gods ; Pandaemonium is a temple for the devils ' self - worship . Second , the gods ' condescension in Ovid draws the divine and human beings into proximity . As the narrator argues in concluding the tale : “ cura deum di sint , et ...
... gods ; Pandaemonium is a temple for the devils ' self - worship . Second , the gods ' condescension in Ovid draws the divine and human beings into proximity . As the narrator argues in concluding the tale : “ cura deum di sint , et ...
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