Consonant Alliteration in Ovid’s "Metamorphoses", Books IX–XV

Expressive Alliteration in Mon and Khmer

One need not look very deeply into Mon-Khmer languages to discover a plethora of expressions which are used to convey specific manners of motion, sound, feeling, and gesture. These types of descriptive words are often called "expressives" in the Southeast Asian linguistic literature (Diffloth, 1976). In fact, in some languages, like Semai (Aslian, Mon-Khmer; ibid), there is ample morphological,...

Patterns of Rape in Ovid's Metamorphoses

The subject of rape is pervasive throughout Ovid's Metamorphoses. The myths themselves are by no means originals of the poet; however, his treatment of these stories is remarkably divergent from his predecessors' in that he provides a uniquely female perspective by outlining both the victim's suffering and the barbaric nature of the perpetrator. In Ovid's representations of these rape myths, ra...

Metamorphoses : The Myth of Evolutionary Possibility

Metamorphoses Through Lie Group Action

We formally analyze a computational problem which has important applications in image understanding and shape analysis. The problem can be summarized as follows. Starting from a group action on a Riemannian manifold M , we introduce a modification of the metric by partly expressing displacements on M as an effect of the action of some group element. The study of this new structure relates to ev...

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