Theater, Metatheater, and the Transformation of a Genre
by
Dan Curley
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2013
Ovid is today best known for his grand epic, Metamorphoses, and elegiac works like the Ars Amatoria and Heroides. Yet he also wrote a Medea, now unfortunately lost. This play kindled in him a lifelong interest in the genre of tragedy, which informed his later poetry and enabled him to continue his...