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... Ovid's historical and cul- tural moment . For example , Regius finds Ovid's creation account indebted not only to Genesis but to Hesiod , Plato , and the Stoics as well . Throughout his edition , Regius documents Ovid's classical ...
... Ovid's historical and cul- tural moment . For example , Regius finds Ovid's creation account indebted not only to Genesis but to Hesiod , Plato , and the Stoics as well . Throughout his edition , Regius documents Ovid's classical ...
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... Ovid intensifies the effect through his narrative mode . Ovid's mannered narration leads readers to create their own images of the transformations , whereas dramatizing such changes would supply a deficient spectacle . Ovid's poem thus ...
... Ovid intensifies the effect through his narrative mode . Ovid's mannered narration leads readers to create their own images of the transformations , whereas dramatizing such changes would supply a deficient spectacle . Ovid's poem thus ...
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... Ovid's demystifying technique , writes , " To the eye of civilized sensibility these deeds of the great heroic past , once di- vested of their glamorous aura , were nothing ... Ovid's parodic version of the Aeneid , in -188- Milton and Ovid.
... Ovid's demystifying technique , writes , " To the eye of civilized sensibility these deeds of the great heroic past , once di- vested of their glamorous aura , were nothing ... Ovid's parodic version of the Aeneid , in -188- Milton and Ovid.
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