Selections from Ovid: Chiefly the MetamorphosesGinn & Company, 1901 - 168 Seiten |
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... most famous fables of the ancient world , the Metamorphoses , in particular , makes the best of introductions to the nobler and more difficult verse of Virgil . WRITINGS OF OVID . 1. HEROIDES : a collection of vi The Life of Ovid .
... most famous fables of the ancient world , the Metamorphoses , in particular , makes the best of introductions to the nobler and more difficult verse of Virgil . WRITINGS OF OVID . 1. HEROIDES : a collection of vi The Life of Ovid .
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... ancients were not altogether consistent on this point . The list given above is , perhaps , the most usual , but Ares or Hermes is sometimes omitted , and ... ancient fancy rioted as freely as the modern fancy in xvi Introduction .
... ancients were not altogether consistent on this point . The list given above is , perhaps , the most usual , but Ares or Hermes is sometimes omitted , and ... ancient fancy rioted as freely as the modern fancy in xvi Introduction .
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... ancient fancy rioted as freely as the modern fancy in novels and fairy tales . Some of them may possibly be explained as a picturesque way of recounting natural phenomena , or as exag- gerated tales of real events . But in general they ...
... ancient fancy rioted as freely as the modern fancy in novels and fairy tales . Some of them may possibly be explained as a picturesque way of recounting natural phenomena , or as exag- gerated tales of real events . But in general they ...
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... ancients . This aim is partly religious and partly scientific , if that can be called scientific which only fills with fancies a void that no science yet exists to fill . Thus the " Theogony " of Hesiod groups together the myths ...
... ancients . This aim is partly religious and partly scientific , if that can be called scientific which only fills with fancies a void that no science yet exists to fill . Thus the " Theogony " of Hesiod groups together the myths ...
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... ancient fancy a group of subjects suited to his graceful , ornate , and marvellously facile style of narrative , and who did not hesi- tate to alter or dress them up to suit his purpose . The " Metamorphoses " - Libri xv ...
... ancient fancy a group of subjects suited to his graceful , ornate , and marvellously facile style of narrative , and who did not hesi- tate to alter or dress them up to suit his purpose . The " Metamorphoses " - Libri xv ...
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