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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 why Rome will stride forward into history, into manifest destiny, and into empire without end'. The Metamorphoses' strangely fantastical surface reflects what is already inherently perverse in that master-narrative, disclosing the narrative's internal contradictions. Ovid rigorously and sceptically not only interrogates the existing (Roman) political order, claimed as lasting truth, but also the very possibility of organizing any polity into a harmonious, organically unified, lasting institution.

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Title Reflections in a Serpent's Eye: Thebes in Ovid's Metamorphoses
Author Micaela Janan
Binding Hardback
Edition number 1st
Edition 1
Pages 290
Volumes 1
Language ENG
Publisher Oxford University Press, 2009. 290p. Hardback. readers not just of Ovid but also of Augustan and post-Augustan epic will find much to engage
Publication date 2009-12-20
Features Bibliography, Index
ISBN 9780199556922 / 019955692X
Weight 1.14 lbs (0.52 kg)
Dimensions 8.5 x 5.5 x 0.81 in (21.59 x 13.97 x 2.06 cm)
Themes
- Chronological Period: Ancient (To 499 A.D.)
- Cultural Region: Italy
- Cultural Region: Middle Eastern
- Interdisciplinary Studies: Classics
Category History - General History
Library of Congress subjects Ovid, Rome - In literature
Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2009931634
Dewey Decimal Code 956.704

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Micaela Janan is Associate Professor of Classical Studies, Duke University.

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