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Peter Reading: Ovidian

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Ovidian

Last Poems London: Chatto and Windus, 1994

254

Comment  First ‘Ovidian’ of two sections: ‘from beginning to 'Now on her corselet, Minerva still wears the / likeness of serpents; / still on the goddess's breastplate are etched these terrible emblems' Ovid Metamorphoses 4. 663-803; Second 'Ovidian' (part of ‘Perseus and Andromeda’ pp. 262-273) based on Ovid Metamorphoses 5. 1-234.