02484nam 22005414a 450 99621008840331620230721023625.01-282-38388-497866123838850-19-157225-X(CKB)2430000000010532(EBL)728920(OCoLC)518361962(SSID)ssj0000342234(PQKBManifestationID)11231021(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000342234(PQKBWorkID)10285062(PQKB)11331672(StDuBDS)EDZ0000075714(MiAaPQ)EBC728920(EXLCZ)99243000000001053220090629d2009 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrReflections in a serpent's eye[electronic resource] Thebes in Ovid's Metamorphoses /Micaela JananOxford Oxford University Pressc20091 online resource (289 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-19-172102-6 0-19-955692-X Includes bibliographical references and index.Introduction: 'Happy Birthday, Romulus' -- 'In Nomine Patris': Ovid's Theban Law -- 'Th' Unconquerable Will, and Study of Revenge': Juno in Thebes -- Narcissus and Echo: The Arrows of Love's Errors -- 'Through a Glass, Darkly': Narcissus as Oedipus -- Pentheus Monsters Thebes -- Ovid and the Epic Traditon: the Post-Augustans.Ovid's extraordinary story of Thebes' founding and bloody unravelling spans two books of his epic poem, the Metamorphoses. His bizarre refractions of the well-ordered community engage Ovid's own Rome and the mythohistory of the Eternal City's origins, most particularly as framed in Vergil's Aeneid (Vergil's poem attained nonpareil status as the Latin epic soon after publication). The Aeneid has regularly been read as persuasively formulating how and whyRome will stride forward into history, into manifest destiny, and into `empire without end'. The Metamorphoses' strangely fantastical surface rThebes (Greece)In literatureRomeIn literature871.01873.01Janan Micaela Wakil961333MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK996210088403316Reflections in a serpent's eye2423012UNISA