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Political Allusion in Ovid? - Ulrich Schmitzer: Zeitgeschichte in Ovids Metamorphosen: mythologische Dichtung unter politischem Anspruch. (Beiträge zur Altertumskunde, 4.) Pp. viii + 377. Stuttgart: Teubner, 1990. DM 78.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 February 2009

D. E. Hill
D. E. Hill
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University of Newcastle upon Tyne
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The Classical Review , Volume 42 , Issue 2 , October 1992 , pp. 303 - 304
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Copyright © The Classical Association 1992

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1 P. 299. Some measure of what this means to S. can be gleaned from his reference on his very first page with apparent approval to Ransmayr's extraordinary novel Die letzte Welt, the English translation of which I reviewed for the May 1990 edition of Literary Review.

2 Pp. 89ff.

3 P. 89. It is characteristic of the thesis origins of the book that Otis is quoted in support of judgement that it is the longest single episode.

4 Aen. 7.170–1.

5 In spite of the fact that the summa in Ovid is attached to fastigia.

6 2.216–26.