Landscape in Ovid's Metamorphoses: A Study in the Transformations of a Literary Symbol

Actaeon already ambiguity Amores Arethusa associations atmosphere beauty becomes beginning Book Callisto cave Chapter character Circe clear close color connected contrast course create Cyclops dangerous death described echo effect elements episode erat erotic especially example fact familiar Fasti flowers follows forest gives Glaucus goddess grove hand helps herbae Hermaphroditus Homer human important innocence Italy lake landscape later less lines literature lust magical meaning Metamorphoses moral motif mysterious myth mythical Narcissus narrative nature nymphs Orpheus OTIS Ovid Ovid's passage passion pastoral peace perhaps phrase Picus play poem poet poetry pool possible preceding present Proserpina provides Recalled river Salmacis scenery Scylla sense setting sexual shade sheltered silva similar simile song story strange suggests symbolical tale tales theme Theocritus transformation umbra unda violation violence virginal woods