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Page 99
... Achelous relates the high - flown Erysicthon , while the idyllic Baucis and Phile- mon is given to Lelex . When speaking of Achelous , Ovid constantly plays on dif- ferent levels of personification . Sometimes Achelous is no more than ...
... Achelous relates the high - flown Erysicthon , while the idyllic Baucis and Phile- mon is given to Lelex . When speaking of Achelous , Ovid constantly plays on dif- ferent levels of personification . Sometimes Achelous is no more than ...
Page 104
... Achelous in human form carrying Perimele upon his back . At this point Achelous is no more than the stream , though there is constant alternation between language appro- priate to the stream and language appropriate to the anthropo ...
... Achelous in human form carrying Perimele upon his back . At this point Achelous is no more than the stream , though there is constant alternation between language appro- priate to the stream and language appropriate to the anthropo ...
Page 148
... Achelous ' number of possible shapes , for they are just three ( 881-2 ) and , in any case , covered by ' numero finita ' ( 880 ) . Nor is there point in saying that Achelous ' often ' has the power to transform him- self . On the other ...
... Achelous ' number of possible shapes , for they are just three ( 881-2 ) and , in any case , covered by ' numero finita ' ( 880 ) . Nor is there point in saying that Achelous ' often ' has the power to transform him- self . On the other ...
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12th cent Accius Achelous Aetia Althaea ambo Amores Ancaeus Apollodorus Baucis and Philemon boar Boeo Brooks Otis Burman Callimachus Calydonian Catullus Catullus 64 Cicero Ciris Compare corpora Crete Daedalus dixit Ennius episode epithet erat Erysicthon esset Euripides Fairy's Revenge Fasti folk-tale fragment Georgics Greek Hecale Heinsius Hellenistic Hermes heroes Heroides Hesiod Heteroeumena Homer Horace hunc Hunger Hyginus hymn Icarus illa ipse Latin legend Lelex Magnus manus manuscript Medea medio Megara Meleager Meleager's Mestra Metamorphoses mihi Minos modo neoteric Nicander Nisus Nonnus nunc Oeneus Ovid Ovid's Ovidian Parthenius pater Pausanias Perdix perhaps phrase Plan poem poetry probably Propertius pseudo-Hesiod quae quam quod quoque Roman saepe sanguine Scylla Silius simile story sunt tamen terra Theseus tibi tradition transformation Tristia undas unus variant verb viii Virgil word Zeus δὲ ἐν καὶ μὲν τε τὸν