Why is Arachne a spider? (Ovid, Metamorphoses 6.129-45)
This essay presents an alternative reading of the transformation of Arachne, with implications for the interpretation of the episode as a whole. On the basis of what Minerva herself says before sprinkling Arachne with the transformative elixir, and of the elixir’s effects as Ovid describes them, I a...
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| Materialtyp: | Article ou chapitre numérique |
| Språk: | Anglais |
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Dictynna
2023
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| Länkar: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |