Change Me: Stories of Sexual Transformation from Ovid

by Ovid, Jane Alison, Alison Keith

Book Overview

Ovid's stories melt moral conventions, explore ambiguities, and dissolve boundaries between men, women, animals, gods, plants, and the mineral world; in doing so they contrive to seduce readers. Ovid's dark pleasure in telling such stories with a full register of tones is palpable. But the stories of sexual encounter in the Metamorphoses are also infused with deep questions. What does it mean to have thoughts and passions trapped inside a changeable...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199941653
• ISBN13: 9780199941650
• Release Date: February 2014
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.1"