EP 14: Ovid's Metamorphosis
Pathways with Joseph Campbell
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The Metamorphosis by Ovid
Ovid was exiled at the age of 50 by augustus in eight a d for reasons that are too millennial later, still unclear. Speculation about ovid's offence has run through the political as well as the sexual hypotheses. Avid's metamorphosis is a sprawling work, which, as the poet himself wrote, seamlessly weaves its way from the world's beginning to our present day.
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