OVID'S METAMORPHOSES: FULL SUMMARY & ANALYSIS

Author at Wipf and Stock: https://wipfandstock.com/author/paul-krause/ Dante's Footsteps: https://stonetowerpress.com/shop-2/authors/paul-krause/dantes-footsteps/ Muses of a Fire: https://stonetowerpress.com/shop-2/authors/paul-krause/muses-of-a-fire/ Finding Arcadia: https://www.amazon.com/dp/1680537148 The Odyssey of Love: https://www.amazon.com/dp/1725297396 My Book on Plato: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08BQLMVH2 Twitter: https://twitter.com/paul_jkrause (@paul_jkrause) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- In this episode of Literary Tales we explore Ovid's Metamorphoses and the juxtapositional dialectic of love and violence relating to metamorphosis (change or transformation) in the great mytho-poetic masterpiece of one of Rome's great sensual poets. This lecture, in particular, focuses on the stories of Perseus and Andromeda; Pygmalion and the Statue; and Acis and Galatea. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Paul Krause is the editor-in-chief of VoegelinView. He is a writer, classicist, and historian. He has written on the arts, culture, classics, literature, philosophy, religion, and history for numerous publications in the English-speaking world. He is the author of Finding Arcadia (2023), The Odyssey of Love (2021), and the Politics of Plato (2020); he has also contributed to The College Lecture Today (2019) and Making Sense of Diseases and Disasters (2022).