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    Editions, Translations, Commentaries

    Anderson, W. S. (ed.) (1997), Ovid’s Metamorphoses Books 1–5 (Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press).

    Bömer, F. (ed.) (1969), P. Ovidius Naso Metamorphosen, Buch I-III (Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter).

    ― (ed.) (1976), P. Ovidius Naso Metamorphosen, Buch IV-V (Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter).

    Dodds, E. R. (ed.) (1960), Euripides Bacchae (Oxford: Clarendon Press).

    Gibson, R. K. (ed.) (2003), Ovid. Ars Amatoria Book 3 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press).

    Henderson, A. A. R. (ed.) (1979), Ovid Metamorphoses III (Bedminister: Bristol Classic Press).

    Kenney, E. J. (1986), Introduction and Notes in Melville (1986).

    Lee, A. G. (ed.) (1953), Ovid Metamorphoses I (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press).

    Melville, A. D. (tr.) (1986), Ovid: Metamorphoses (Oxford: Oxford World’s Classics). With Introduction and Notes by E. J. Kenney.

    ― (tr.) (1995), Ovid: Sorrows of an Exile (Oxford: Oxford University Press). With Introduction and Notes by E. J. Kenney.

    Richmond, J. A. (ed.) (1962), The Halieutica Ascribed to Ovid (London: University of London, Athlone Press).

    Schierl, P. (ed.) (2006), Die Tragödien des Pacuvius (Berlin: W. de Gruyter).

    Tarrant, R. (ed.) (2004), P. Ovidi Nasonis Metamorphoses (Oxford: Oxford University Press), http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/actrade/97...8146667.book.1

    Turpin, W. (2016), Ovid, Amores (Book 1) (Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers), freely available at http://www.openbookpublishers.com/product/348

    Zissos, A. (ed.) (2008), Valerius Flaccus: Argonautica Book 1 (Oxford: Oxford University Press), http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/actrade/97...9219490.book.1

    Other Literature

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    Barchiesi, A. (1999), ‘Venus’ Masterplot: Ovid and the Homeric Hymns’. In Ovidian Transformations: Essays on the Metamorphoses and Its Reception, edited by P. Hardie, A. Barchiesi and S. Hinds (Cambridge: Cambridge Philological Society), pp. 112–26.

    Barkan, L. (1986), The Gods Made Flesh: Metamorphosis and the Pursuit of Paganism (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press).

    Brown, S. A. (1999), The Metamorphosis of Ovid: From Chaucer to Ted Hughes (London: Duckworth), http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9781472540324

    Cole, S. (2007), ‘Finding Dionysus’. In A Companion to Greek Religion, edited by D. Ogden (Malden, MA; Oxford; and Carlton: Blackwell Publishing), pp. 325–41, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/9780470996911.ch22

    Currie, H. M. (1981), ‘Ovid and the Roman Stage’. Aufstieg und Niedergang der römischen Welt II.31.4: 2701–42.

    Fantham, E. (2004), Ovid’s Metamorphoses (Oxford: Oxford University Press).

    Farrell, J. (1992), ‘Dialogue of Genres in Ovid’s Lovesong of Polyphemus (Metamorphoses 13.719–897)’. American Journal of Philology 113.2: 235–68, http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/295559

    Feeney, D. C. (1991), The Gods in Epic: Poets and Critics of the Classical Tradition (Oxford: Clarendon Press).

    Feldherr, A. (1997), ‘Metamorphosis and Sacrifice in Ovid’s Theban Narrative’. Materiali e discussioni per l’analisi dei testi classici 38.1: 25–55.

    ― (2010), Playing Gods. Ovid’s Metamorphoses and the Politics of Fiction (Princeton: Princeton University Press), http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/9781400836543

    Fitzgerald, W. (2016), Variety: The Life of a Roman Concept (Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press)), http://dx.doi.org/10.7208/chicago/97...99525.001.0001

    Galinsky, G. K. (1975), Ovid’s Metamorphoses: An Introduction to the Basic Aspects (Berkeley and Los Angeles, CA: University of California Press).

    Gildenhard, I. and A. Zissos (2000a), ‘Ovid’s Narcissus (Met. 3.339–510): Echoes of Oedipus’. American Journal of Philology 121.1: 129–47, http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/ajp.2000.0006

    ― (2000b), ‘Inspirational Fictions: Autobiography and Generic Reflexivity in Ovid’s Proems’. Greece & Rome 47.1: 67–79, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/gr/47.1.67

    ― (2004), ‘Ovid’s “Hecale”: Deconstructing Athens in the Metamorphoses’. The Journal of Roman Studies 94:47–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/4135010

    ― (2013), ‘The Transformations of Ovid’s Medea’. In Transformative Change in Western Thought; A History of Metamorphosis from Homer to Hollywood, edited by I. Gildenhard and A. Zissos (Oxford: Legenda), pp. 88–130.

    Ginsberg, W. (1989), ‘Ovid’s Metamorphoses and the Politics of Interpretation’. The Classical Journal 84.3: 222–31.

    Görler, W. (1999), ‘Rowing Strokes: Tentative Considerations of Shifting Objects in Virgil and Elsewhere’. In Aspects of the Language of Latin Poetry, edited by J. N. Adams and R. Mayer (Oxford: Oxford University Press), pp. 269–86, http://www.britac.ac.uk/pubs/proc/files/93p269.pdf

    Hardie, P. (1990), ‘Ovid’s Theban History: The First “Anti-Aeneid”?’ The Classical Quarterly 40.1: 224–35.

    ― (1992), The Epic Successors of Virgil (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press), http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/cbo9781139163743

    ― (2002a), Ovid’s Poetics of Illusion (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press).

    ― (ed.) (2002b), Cambridge Companion to Ovid (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press), http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/ccol0521772818

    ― (2012), Rumour and Renown: Representations of Fama in Western Literature (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press).

    Harrison, S. J. (2007), Generic enrichment in Vergil and Horace (Oxford: Oxford University Press), http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso...03581.001.0001

    Hinds, S. (1987), The Metamorphosis of Persephone: Ovid and the Self-conscious Muse (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press).

    Holzberg, N. (2002), Ovid: The Poet and his Work (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press).

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    James, P. (1993), ‘Pentheus Anguigena—Sins of the Father’. Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies 38.1: 81–93, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.2041-5370.1993.tb00704.x

    Janan, M. (2004), ‘The Snake Sheds its Skin: Pentheus (Re)imagines Thebes’. Classical Philology 99.1: 130–46, http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/423859

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    Keith, A. (2002), ‘Sources and Genres in Ovid’s Metamorphoses 1–5’. In Brill’s Companion to Ovid, edited by B. W. Boyd (Leiden: Brill), pp. 235–69, http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789047400950_009

    Knox, P. E. (ed.) (2009), A Companion to Ovid (Malden, MA and Oxford: John Wiley & Sons).

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    Liveley, G. (2011), Ovid’s ‘Metamorphoses’: A Reader’s Guide (London: Bloomsbury), http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9781472539991

    Lovatt, H. (2013), The Epic Gaze: Vision, Gender and Narrative in Ancient Epic (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press), http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/cbo9781139060080

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    McNamara, J. (2010), ‘The Frustration of Pentheus: Narrative Momentum in Ovid’s Metamorphoses 3.511–731’. The Classical Quarterly 60.1: 173–93, http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0009838809990528

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