Ovid: A Poet Between Two Worlds

Ovid: A Poet Between Two Worlds(1945)

Walter BurkertΗλέκτρα Ανδρεάδη

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A delightful biography of Ovid replete with much literary criticism, first published in 1945 and derived from Professor Hermann Fränkel's Sather Classical Lectures on Ovid at the University of California, Berkeley.

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Pages
282
Language
English


Published at
1/1/1945

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