The Chronicle Review

Ovid Had No Trigger Warning

Jonathan Twingley for The Chronicle Review

August 24, 2015

Toward the end of his life, the Roman poet Ovid wrote that he had another story to add to Metamorphoses, his book of traumatic changes: his own.

Tell them the face of my own fortunes
can be reckoned among those Metamorphoses.
Now that face is...

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