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13 juillet 2017
- handle: 10670/1.nppmet
- isbn: 9781783740826
- eisbn: 9782821884045
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Ingo Gildenhard et al., « 2. Ovid’s Literary Progression: Elegy to Epic », Open Book Publishers, ID : 10670/1.nppmet
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When the first edition of the Metamorphoses hit the shelves in the bookshops of Rome, Ovid had already made a name for himself in the literary circles of the city. His official debut, the Amores (‘Love Affairs’) lured his tickled readers into a freewheeling world of elegiac love, slaphappy hedonism, and (more or less) adept adultery. His subsequent Heroides (‘Letters written by Heroines to their absent Hero-Lovers’) were also designed to appeal to connoisseurs of elegiac poetry, who could her...