The Image of the Poet in Ovid's Metamorphoses (review)

Abstract

hero to reassert in pitched battle the superiority of his oikos over the ithakans. Appropriately, Zeus’ amnesty specifies a “forgetting” only of the murder of the suitors but not of the final battle. These minor disagreements aside, i learned a great deal from this instructive book. other Homerists will benefit as well, and they should have no qualms about assigning it to graduate students and even advanced undergraduates. indeed, the work is especially user-friendly: one gets what Marks is saying the first time around.