Talking Trees: Philemon and Baucis Revisited.
This article informs about the "Philemon and Baucis" story, which is a central but self-effacing episode of the book "Metamorphoses," by Ovid. It is framed by a discussion of divine miracles at one end and a description of the infinitely changeable god Proteus at the other. It seems appropriate that...
| Publicado en: | Arethusa Vol. 38; no. 3; pp. 331 - 366 |
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Johns Hopkins University Press
Fall2005
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