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A third student suggests Dante is also staging a poetic contest with Ovid by showing that he can write metamorphosis scenes just as powerfully.
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Ovid
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...to prove that he can write about metamorphosis as good as Ovid can."
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Jiang accepts the idea that Dante may be competing with Ovid and echoing visionary scriptural writing while using metamorphosis to make the approach to Lucifer feel like horror.
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"...to prove that he can write about metamorphosis as good as Ovid can."
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"...Dante admires. Virgil is definitely among the top, but there's also Ovid and Lucan, okay? And he does mention Ovid and Lucan in this..."
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"And also in the Bible, in the book of Revelations, which is the last book of the Bible, John wrote a lot of visions..."
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"Excellent. Okay, right. So we're approaching Lucifer, right? We're approaching the inner core of Lucifer. And maybe what he's trying to do is convey..."
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"...and wait to hear what flies off from my bow. Let Ovid now be silent, where he tells of Cadmus Arethusa, if his verse..."
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