Table of Contents

1: Introduction: `Happy Birthday, Romulus'
2: `In Nomine Patris': Ovid's Theban Law
3: `Th' Unconquerable Will, and Study of Revenge': Juno in Thebes
4: Narcissus and Echo: The Arrows of Love's Errors
5: `Through a Glass Darkly': Narcissus as Oedipus
6: Pentheus Monsters Thebes
7: Ovid and the Epic Tradition: The Post-Augustans

About the Author

Micaela Janan is Associate Professor of Classical Studies, Duke University.

Reviews

readers not just of Ovid but also of Augustan and post-Augustan epic will find much to engage, stimulate and provoke them here. ... there is much to enjoy in this bold, challenging and intelligent work that offers many new insights and genuinely fresh perpectives on a familiar text.
*Matthew Robinson, Journal of Roman Studies*