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Myth
epic and intertextuality ‐ Epic, “highest” genre in ancient hierarchy of types of poetry
/ Metamorphoses ‐ drawing our attention to how stories are told and why
/ myth, a kind of poetic language ‐ idiom with which Greek and Roman poets were familiar
/ myths–Ovid reminding us ‐ that these are just poetic lies
/ Ovid in the Metamorphoses, continuous process of creative engagement with sources
/ Ovid's famous poem, the Metamorphoses ‐ best‐known sources of Greek and Roman mythology
/ Ovid, and his Metamorphoses ‐ paradoxically, as both perpetuum and deductum
/ striking aspects of Metamorphoses ‐ the poem's polyphony of narrative voices
/ uses of myth ‐ myths (Greek mythos, “story”) ‐ traditional tales about gods and mortals