Reflections in a serpent's eye
Subtitle: Thebes in Ovid's Metamorphoses
By: Micaela Janan.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Oxford
Language: eng
Number of pages: 276
ISBN-13: 9780199556922
Subjects: Ovid, -- 43 B.C.-17 or 18 A.D; Thebes (Greece) -- In literature; Rome -- In literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: 'Happy Birthday, Romulus'; title: 'In Nomine Patris': Ovid's Theban Law; title: 'Th' Unconquerable Will, and Study of Revenge': Juno in Thebes; title: Narcissus and Echo: The Arrows of Love's Errors; title: 'Through a Glass, Darkly': Narcissus as Oedipus; title: Pentheus Monsters Thebes; title: Ovid and the Epic Traditon: the Post-Augustans.