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- ↑ O'Hara, James. "Ovidian Transformations: Essays on the Metamorphoses and its Reception" . Retrieved 2020-10-24.
- ↑ Jenkyns, Richard. "Homeric Effects in Vergil's Narrative by Alessandro Barchiesi (review)". Common Knowledge. 2: 358–9.
