The Lay of the Land in Ovid's "perseid" (Met. 4.610-5.249)
This paper explores Ovid's elaboration of the metaphor that associates the female body with the earth in a series of tales at the end of Metamorphoses 4, in which women and landscape are closely linked. I argue that Ovid documents in his Perseus narrative not only woman's "natural&quo...
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