Introduction: Ovid as a Hesiodic poet -- Helen: the intertext of illusion -- Cosmos and Eros: from chaos to divine loves -- Coronis and Mestra: bringing the women back to The catalogue of women -- Atalanta: literal and literary races -- Caenis and Periclymenus: Hesiod at Achilles' party.
Summary
Explores the previously neglected influence on Ovid's Metamorphoses of Hesiod, the most important archaic Greek poet after Homer.
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