Milton and the Metamorphosis of Ovid

Milton and the Metamorphosis of Ovid contributes to our understanding of the Roman poet Ovid, the Renaissance writer Milton, and more broadly the transmission and transformation of classical traditions through history. It examines the ways in which Milton drew on Ovid''s oeuvre, as well as the long tradition of reception that had begun with Ovid himself, and argues that Ovid''s revision of the pas...