"This book affirms the experience of likeness at the heart of many, if not all, disciplines of knowledge and seeks to formalize that basic experience into a science of its own, "homeotics.""--.
Similes are a particular feature of epic, and those of Homer and Virgil's 'Aeneid' have received considerable attention. This is the first book to examine the more numerous similes in Ovid's 'Metamorphoses' and the ways in which they touch on the most profound issues of the poem.
Similes are a particular feature of epic, and those of Homer and Virgil's 'Aeneid' have received considerable attention. This is the first book to examine the more numerous similes in Ovid's 'Metamorphoses' and the ways in which they touch on the most profound issues of the poem.