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A song and a mistake.(Books)(Metamorphoses)(Book Review)
Just what was Ovid's crime? What offense did he commit that prompted Augustus, in 8 A.D., to banish him, for the rest of his life, to Tomis on the Black Sea? Ovid himself alludes to the cause, remarking that it was due to carmen et error, "a song and a mistake." Scholars have puzzled over the song, or poem, in question, as well as the error, for centuries. No doubt we'll never know precisely. But the formulation is striking. Ovid pairs song and error--a dubious couple--in the same manner in which he links the mythical characters in his Metamorphoses: Jove and Europa or Mars and Venus or Daedalus and Icarus. Could his phrase be merely his clever, if poignant, way of ...
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- Magazine article from: Philological Quarterly Casebier, Karen September 22, 2001 700+ words
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- Magazine article from: TriQuarterly Savino, Alberto September 22, 1993 700+ words
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- Magazine article from: Critical Arts Kearney, J.A. January 1, 2001 700+ words
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- Reference information from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music MICHAEL KENNEDY and JOYCE BOURNE January 1, 1996 700+ words
Metamorphoses after Ovid, Six. Work for solo ob., Op.49, by Britten, comp. 1951. Movts. are entitled Pan , Phaeton , Niobe , Bacchus , Narcissus , and Arethusa . F.p. Thorpeness 1951 ( Joy Boughton).
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- Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service Copley, Rich November 3, 2003 700+ words
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- Magazine article from: Renaissance Quarterly Dimatteo, Anthony September 22, 2008 700+ words
...Rupp, eds. Metamorphosis: The Changing Face of Ovid in Medieval...handbook on Ovid in the sixteenth...claimed that the Metamorphoses was written...Georgius Sabinus, Metamorphosis seu Fabulae...understanding of Ovid's epic, neatly...
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- Magazine article from: Renaissance Quarterly James, Heather September 22, 2002 700+ words
...Shakespeare's Ovid: The Metamorphoses in the Plays and...translation of Ovid's. The essays...shifting world of the Metamorphoses rather than to...the figure of metamorphosis and Pierre Brunel...fragmentary allusions to Ovid. Peyre's sense...
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- Reference information from: Monarch Notes Ovid January 1, 1963 700+ words
Ovid Monarch Notes 01-01-1963 Metamorphoses This poem is in fifteen...Comment: 1. The Metamorphoses (met uh more Foh...Interpretation: Metamorphoses, Questions And Answers...With which myth does Ovid begin? Answer...
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