Return to Bibliography of Willa Cather's Readings
Bibliography: Metamorphoses by Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso)
- Title
- Metamorphoses
- Author
- Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso)
- Date
- Genre
- poetry
- Note Source
- Uncle Valentine and Other Stories 149
- Note Relating to Cather
- In "Coming, Eden Bower!" after a confrontation with Eden about washing his dog in the bathtub she has to use, Don Ledger thinks "about man who was turned into a dog, or was pursued by dogs, because he unnwittingly intruded upon the bath of beauty." The reference is undoubtedly to the man who sees Diana naked, is turned into a stag, and is then killed by his own dogs.
