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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"Augustan poetry"”.
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Environmental Change in Ovid's Poetry
… justice to the subtlety and complexity of Ovid’s poetry. Reading Ovid requires thinking of "cultivation" (Latin, "cultus") as an emergent and unstable process of negotiation with nonhumans (plants, animals, minerals, the land, and the gods). The thesis shows that, throughout his career, Ovid …
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Lucretian stillness and motion as political metaphors in Ovid’s Metamorphoses
… one of water—which Ovid treats as corrosive to Augustan power and infrastructure respectively. In Chapter 4, I extrapolate from Ovid’s analogous treatment of stillness and silence to argue that he regarded the individual’s loss of motion, as well as of speech, as a metaphor for political …
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The Night Witch: The Demonic and the Roman Witch
The Night Witch is a concept found throughout human culture, a category of the female magical practitioner who can only be found in literature and the nightmares of those who imagine her. As the name suggests, she typically operates at night, using violence and magic to ensnare and kill her …
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The Night Witch: The Demonic and the Roman Witch
The Night Witch is a concept found throughout human culture, a category of the female magical practitioner who can only be found in literature and the nightmares of those who imagine her. As the name suggests, she typically operates at night, using violence and magic to ensnare and kill her …