Milton and the Metamorphosis of Ovid

by Maggie Kilgour

Milton and the Metamorphosis of Ovid contributes to our understanding of the Roman poet Ovid, the Renaissance writer Milton, and more broadly the transmission and transformation of classical traditions through history. It examines the ways in which Milton drew on Ovid's oeuvre, as well as the long tradition of reception that had begun with Ovid himself, and argues that Ovid's revision of the past, and especially his relation to Virgil, gave Renaissance...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199589437
• ISBN13: 9780199589432
• Release Date: April 2012
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 398 Pages
• Weight: 1.44 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.5" x 8.5"