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Ovid, Metamorphoses, 3.511-733. Latin Text with Commentary

This extract from Ovid's 'Theban History' recounts the confrontation of Pentheus, king of Thebes, with his divine cousin, Bacchus, the god of wine. Notwithstanding the warnings of the seer Tiresias and the cautionary tale of a character Acoetes (perhaps Bacchus in disguise), who tells...

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Main Authors: Gildenhard, Ingo (Author), Zissos, Andrew (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: [Place of publication not identified] Open Book Publishers [2016]
Series:Open textbook library.
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Rhetoric > Textbooks
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • 1. Ovid and His Times
  • 2. Ovid's Literary Progression: Elegy to Epic
  • 3. The Metamorphoses: A Literary Monstrum
  • 3a. Genre Matters
  • 3b. A Collection of Metamorphic Tales
  • 3c. A Universal History
  • 3d. Anthropological Epic
  • 3e. A Reader's Digest of Greek and Latin Literature
  • 4. Ovid's Theban Narrative
  • 5. The Set Text: Pentheus and Bacchus
  • 5a. Sources and Intertexts
  • 5b. The Personnel of the Set Text
  • 6. The Bacchanalia and Roman Culture
  • Text
  • Commentary
  • 511–26: Tiresias' Warning to Pentheus
  • 527–71: Pentheus' Rejection of Bacchus
  • 531–63: Pentheus' Speech
  • 572–691: The Captive Acoetes and his Tale
  • 692–733: Pentheus' Gruesome Demise
  • Appendices
  • 1. Versification
  • 2. Glossary of Rhetorical and Syntactic Figures

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