Table of Contents

Prefaces; List of abbreviations; 1. The problem; 2. The limitations of the elegist; 3. The plan of Ovid's epic; 4. The divine comedy; 5. The avenging gods; 6. The pathos of love: I; 7. The pathos of love: II; 8. Troy and Rome; 9. Conclusion; Appendix; Indices.

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Professor Otis shows that the unity of Ovid's Metamorphoses is not in the linkage but in the order or succession of episodes, motifs and ideas.