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Ovid: Metamorphoses IThe first book of Ovid's Metamorphoses contains an interesting variety of material. It begins with myths related to the creation of the world and man, decline from the golden age, the flood and the story of Deucalion and Pyrrha. In the second half it deals primarily with two main metamorphosis myths Apollo's love for Daphne and the story of Io. Guy Lee's edition, first published by CUP in 1952, supplies a detailed commentary of explanatory notes (with

Tacitus vividly portrays the machinations of Sejanus as he attempts to manoeuvre himself into a position to assume the ultimate authority

The passages are provided with introductions and a glossary of problematic words and idioms

community schools and academies in the UK and USA

classical drama

The idea of sexual fluidity may seem new

students gradually build their proficiency in Latin while exploring cultural topics through background notes

It followed closely the notorious proscriptions made under the dictator Sulla

An inviting and highly readable new translation of Aristotle’s complete Poetics—the first and best introduction to the art of writing and understanding stories

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which may contribute little to the total understanding of the poem as the poet conceived it'

written in the early-2nd century CE

and ample annotation fully current with modern scholarship

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