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... Ovidian phrase plainly match Ovid's description of Scylla , the lovely nymph whose body Circe transformed into a mass of yelping hounds from the waist down ( Met . XIV , 40-74 ) . Finally - according to Ovid - she became the dangerous ...
... Ovidian phrase plainly match Ovid's description of Scylla , the lovely nymph whose body Circe transformed into a mass of yelping hounds from the waist down ( Met . XIV , 40-74 ) . Finally - according to Ovid - she became the dangerous ...
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... Ovid describes ( Met . XV , 391-407 ) as immo- lating itself once in five hundred years on a pyre of spices , only to " carry its own cradle and its father's tomb to the city of the sun . " Ovid's city of the sun , Heliopolis , becomes ...
... Ovid describes ( Met . XV , 391-407 ) as immo- lating itself once in five hundred years on a pyre of spices , only to " carry its own cradle and its father's tomb to the city of the sun . " Ovid's city of the sun , Heliopolis , becomes ...
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... Ovid's story was a foil and ( it may be added ) a corrobora- tion for the biblical account . 738. Milton could count on his readers to remember that in Ovid's account of Deucalion's flood ( Met . I , 264 ) , when Jove prepared vengeance ...
... Ovid's story was a foil and ( it may be added ) a corrobora- tion for the biblical account . 738. Milton could count on his readers to remember that in Ovid's account of Deucalion's flood ( Met . I , 264 ) , when Jove prepared vengeance ...
Contents
Preface | vii |
Abbreviations of Titles of Periodicals Cited in the Notes | xiv |
Bibliography of Books Dealing Mainly with Paradise Lost | li |
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