Acknowledgements
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vii
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Abbreviations
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ix
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Symbols and Terms
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ix
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Reference Works
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ix
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Grammatical Terms
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x
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Ancient Literature
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x
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Introduction
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1
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1.
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Ovid and His Times
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3
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2.
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Ovid’s Literary Progression: Elegy to Epic
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9
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3.
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The Metamorphoses: A Literary Monstrum
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13
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3a.
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Genre Matters
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14
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3b.
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A Collection of Metamorphic Tales
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16
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3c.
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A Universal History
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19
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3d.
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Anthropological Epic
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25
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3e.
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A Reader’s Digest of Greek and Latin Literature
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27
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4.
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Ovid’s Theban Narrative
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31
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5.
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The Set Text: Pentheus and Bacchus
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39
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5a.
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Sources and Intertexts
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39
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5b.
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The Personnel of the Set Text
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45
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6.
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The Bacchanalia and Roman Culture
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65
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Text
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69
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Commentary
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115
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511–26: Tiresias’ Warning to Pentheus
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119
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527–71: Pentheus’ Rejection of Bacchus
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135
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531–63: Pentheus’ Speech
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137
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572–691: The Captive Acoetes and his Tale
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163
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692–733: Pentheus’ Gruesome Demise
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207
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Appendices
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223
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1.
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Versification
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225
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2.
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Glossary of Rhetorical and Syntactic Figures
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235
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Bibliography
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241
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