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| List of illustrations | |
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| List of maps | |
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| Preface | |
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| List of abbreviations | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Metamorphoses and this selection | |
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| Ovid's life | |
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| Some features of this selection | |
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| Ovid's gods | |
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| Women and woods | |
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| Amor and rape in Ovid | |
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| Ovid and epic | |
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| Irony and paradox | |
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| Style | |
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| Some assessments | |
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| After-life | |
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| Glossary of technical literary terms | |
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| Notes for the reader | |
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| Translating Ovid | |
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| Metre | |
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| Suggestions for further reading | |
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| Maps | |
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| Passages | |
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| Deucalion and Pyrrha, Metamorphoses 1.348-415 | |
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| Cupid, Apollo and Daphne, Metamorphoses 1.452-567 | |
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| Io (and Syrinx), Metamorphoses 1.583-746 | |
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| Phaethon, Metamorphoses 2.150-216, 227-38, 260-71, 301-39 | |
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| Diana and Actaeon, Metamorphoses 3.138-252 | |
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| Juno and Semele, Metamorphoses 3.253-315 | |
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| Tiresias, Metamorphoses 3.316-38 | |
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| Echo and Narcissus, Metamorphoses 3.339-510 | |
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| Pyramus and Thisbe, Metamorphoses 4.55-166 | |
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| Arethusa, Metamorphoses 5.572-641 | |
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| Minerva and Arachne, Metamorphoses 6.1-145 | |
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| Cephalus and Procris, Metamorphoses 7.694-756, 796-862 | |
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| Minos, Ariadne, Daedalus and Icarus, Metamorphoses 8.152-235 | |
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| Baucis and Philemon, Metamorphoses 8.626-724 | |
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| Byblis, Metamorphoses 9.517-665 | |
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| Orpheus, Metamorphoses 10.8-63, 11.1-66 | |
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| Pygmalion, Metamorphoses 10.243-97 | |
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| Venus and Adonis, Metamorphoses 10.519-739 | |
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| Midas, Metamorphoses 11.100-45 | |
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| Total learning vocabulary | |
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| Grammar index | |