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Barbara Weiden Boyd
Dictynna, 12/2022, Letnik: 19Journal Article
This paper considers some implications of Ovid’s concept of a perpetuum carmen by examining how the ‘narrative line’ of the poem takes shape. I focus on how the Metamorphoses can be described in terms of horizontality, or verticality, or both, and use the Cadmus and Achelous episodes to demonstrate how ‘linear’ entities, particularly snakes and rivers, can determine the progress of the stories in which they appear.
