Shawn O'Bryhim - A Student's Commentary on Ovid's Metamorphoses Book 10

Shawn O’Bryhim

Franklin & Marshall CollegeLancaster, Pennsylvania

This edition first published 2021

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Ovid, 43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D. Metamorphoses. Liber 10. | O’Bryhim, Shawn, 1960- Student’s commentary on Ovid’s Metamorphoses Book 10.

Title: A student’s commentary on Ovid’s Metamorphoses Book 10 / Shawn David O’Bryhim.

Description: Hoboken, NJ : John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2021. | Includes bibliographical references and index. | Text in Latin, commentary in English.

Identifiers: LCCN 2020051150 (print) | LCCN 2020051151 (ebook) | ISBN 9781119770503 (paperback) | ISBN 9781119770510 (epub) | ISBN 9781119770527 (pdf) | ISBN 9781119770534 (ebook)

Subjects: LCSH: Ovid, 43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D. Metamorphoses. Liber 10. | Mythology, Classical, in literature. | Metamorphosis in literature.

Classification: LCC PA6519.M9 S78 2021 (print) | LCC PA6519.M9 (ebook) | DDC 873/.01--dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2020051150

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1 Cover

2 Title Page A Student’s Commentary on Ovid’s Metamorphoses Book 10 Shawn O’Bryhim Franklin & Marshall CollegeLancaster, Pennsylvania

3 Copyright

4 Dedication

5 Acknowledgments

6 Preface

7 Introduction i. Ovid’s Biography ii. Ovid’s Works iii. Metamorphoses iv. Summary of Book 10 v. Scansion vi. Suggestions for Further Reading

8 Glossary of Terms

9 Abbreviations

10 Text of Book 10

11 Commentary

12 Works Cited

13 Index

14 End User License Agreement

1 Cover

2 Title Page

3 Copyright

4 Table of Contents

5 Dedication

6 Acknowledgments

7 Preface

8 Begin Reading

9 Glossary of Terms

10 Abbreviations

11 Text of Book 10

12 Commentary

13 Works Cited

14 Index

15 End User License Agreement

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I began my study of Ovid’s Metamorphoses while I was a graduate student in the Department of Classics at the University of Texas at Austin. The Near Eastern background of its Amathusian myths became the topic of my dissertation, which was guided to completion by the members of my committee: my Doktorvater G. Karl Galinsky, Michael von Albrecht, John Kroll, M. Gwyn Morgan, and Douglass Parker. All of them were very tolerant of my ideas about Near Eastern elements in Greek and Roman myth, at a time when this topic was still controversial. It seems somehow fitting that a project that began in graduate school has come to fruition at the end of my career, albeit in a very different form.