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Latin Commentaries on Ovid from the Renaissance.


Moss, Ann, ed. Latin Commentaries on Ovid Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso) (ŏv`ĭd), 43 B.C.–A.D. 18, Latin poet, b. Sulmo (present-day Sulmona), in the Apennines. Although trained for the law, he preferred the company of the literary coterie at Rome. He enjoyed early and widespread fame as a poet and was known to the emperor Augustus. In A.D. from the Renaissance.

(Library of Renaissance Humanism.) Signal Mountain: Summertown, 1999. xv + 260 pp. bibl, index. $45. ISBN: 1-893009-02-5.

Designed to provide insight into "Renaissance habits of reading and writing poetic fiction," this chronologically ordered compendium contains sixteenth and seventeenth-century commentaries on Ovid's Metamorphoses, as well as a brief introductory analysis of each. In order to facilitate comparison, and provide a sense of how commentators served as "purveyors (World-Wide Web) Purveyor - A World-Wide Web server for Windows NT and Windows 95 (when available).

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 of accepted norms of reading," the volume includes translations of Renaissance commentaries appended To add to the end of an existing structure. to three of Ovid's fables fable, brief allegorical narrative, in verse or prose, illustrating a moral thesis or satirizing human beings. The characters of a fable are usually animals who talk and act like people while retaining their animal traits. The oldest known fables are those in the Panchatantra, a collection of fables in Sanskrit, and those attributed to the Greek Aesop, perhaps the most famous of all fabulists. (Apollo and Daphne

Daphne, in Greek mythology

Daphne (dăf`nē), in Greek mythology, a nymph. She was loved by Apollo and by Leucippus, a mortal who disguised himself as a nymph to be near her. When Leucippus betrayed his sex while bathing, the nymphs tore him to pieces.
, Actaeon Actaeon (ăktē`ən), in Greek mythology, son of Aristaeus and Autonoë. Because he saw Artemis bathing naked, she changed him into a stag, and his own dogs killed him., Echo and Narcissus

Narcissus, in the Bible

Narcissus (närsĭs`əs), in the New Testament, Roman whose household was partly Christian.

Narcissus, in Roman history

Narcissus, d. A.D. 54, secretary of the Roman Emperor Claudius I.
), as well as the full text of these fables and a facing page translation taken from George Sandys's Ovid's Metamorphosis
fatty metamorphosis  fatty change.


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 Englished (1632).
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