Ovid: Of
Bodies That Have Been Transformed
BODIES TRANSFORMED – HOW CAN THAT BE?
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Metamorphoses, by V. Miller
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Caprice, by J. Wright
Compare to: Ovid, Metam.5,631-9
DAPHNE'S
FATE
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Apollo and Daphne, by Y. Winters
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Mythic Fragment, by L. Glück
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Virtuosity, by G. Garrett
Compare to: Ovid, Metam.
1,468-73
PEEPING TOMS – BEWARE!
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Actaeoni (Somewhat After Yeats), by J. Humma
Compare to: Ovid, Metam.
3,173-194
THE
OLD SEER
Compare to: Ovid, Metam.
3,324-31
NARCISSUS BY THE POOL, or
WHETHER WE OUGHT MOST TO LOVE OURSELVES
OR OTHERS
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Brooklyn Narcissus, by P. Blackburn
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To a Daughter, by L. Pastan
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Narcissus, by D. Schwartz
Compare to: Ovid, Metam.
3,415-19; Aristotle, Nic. Eth. 9,8,6
MINERVA’S
RIGHTEOUS (?) INDIGNATION
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The Birth of Arachne, the Spider, by J. Schevill
Compare to: Ovid, Metam.
6,1-7
THE HEARTLESS MOTHER NIOBE
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Niobe, by W. Logan
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Niobe, by K. Patchen
Compare to: Ovid, Metam.
6,157-68; Plato, Rep. 2,380a-c
JASON – SOME ALLEGORICAL INTERPRETATIONS
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The Golden Fleece, by O. Williams
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Jason, by A. Hecht
Compare to: Ovid, Metam.
7,121-4; Plato, Phaedr. 229d-230a
THE CRETAN LABYRINTH
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To a Scholar in the Stacks, by H. Nemerov
Compare to: Ovid, Metam.
8,159-68
THE ESCAPE OF DAEDALUS
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O Daedalus, Fly Away Home, by R. Hayden
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Artificer, By L. Pastan
Compare to: Ovid, Metam.
8,183-9
GODS IN DISGUISE
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The Gods Who Come Among Us in the Guise of Strangers,
by P. Mariani
Compare to: Ovid, Metam.
8,620-29; Acts of Apost. 14,11-3
SURVIVING THE GREAT FLOOD
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Baucis and Philemon, by K. Hoskins
Compare to: Ovid, Metam.
8,712-9
ANIMAL SACRIFICES: PROS AND CONS
(INCLUDING SOME REFLECTIONS ON SWANS)
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The Psychonaut Sonnets: Jones, by A. Goldbarth
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Swan and Shadow, by J. Hollander
Compare to: Ovid, Metam.
15,127-40; Plato, Phaedo 84e
ORPHEUS AND THE TREES (NATIVE AND OTHERWISE)
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Orpheus, by E. M. Roberts
Compare to: Ovid, Metam.
10,86-105
ORPHEUS IN THE UNDERWORLD
ORPHEUS IN THE NEW WORLD
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Orpheus in America, by L. Simpson
POOR EURYDICE
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Last Night, by D. Ignatow
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God of Journeys and Secret Tidings, by D. Wojahn
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In Golden Gate Park that day, by L. Ferlinghetti
Compare to: Ovid, Metam.
10,58-63
ART GIVES LIFE
Compare to: Ovid, Metam.
10,247-53
LOVE (AND LABOR) CONQUERS ALL
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Tale of a Later Leander, by J. Logan
Compare to: Ovid, Heroid.
18
AN AFTERTHOUGHT: THE POET AND THE POWERS-TO-BE
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Writer in Exile, by K. Shapiro
Compare to: Ovid, Trist.
2,353-7; Ex Pont. 4,13,18-20;Lampridius, Life of Alex.Sev.
3
THE EXILE -- INWARD AND OUTWARD
Compare to: Ovid, Trist.
3,12,1-54
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