Extreme Sexual Taboo in Ovid's Metamorphoses

该项目分析了奥维德的《变形记》中乱伦和兽交的表现，探索了广泛持有的社会信仰是如何在极端性禁忌的叙述中编码的。它询问奥维德如何以及为什么操纵他的神话来源，使乱伦和兽交更加突出，同时对它们保持强烈的情感厌恶。它揭示了禁忌是如何成为魅力的焦点，渗透在《变形记》（Metamorphoses）等文化艺术品中，也是如何成为恐怖的焦点，成为奥维德一些最具创伤性的叙事的主题。该项目以强大的理论框架为基础，为奥维德学术和跨学科禁忌研究的传统做出了贡献。

The project analyses the presentation of incest and bestiality in Ovid's Metamorphoses, exploring how widely-held societal beliefs are encoded in narratives of extreme sexual taboo. It asks how and why Ovid manipulated his mythographic sources to give incest and bestiality heightened prominence, whilst maintaining a powerful emotional distaste for them. It uncovers how taboo is a focus of fascination, pervading cultutal artefacts like the Metamorphoses, and of horror, being the theme of some of Ovid's most traumatic narratives. This project is grounded in a strong theoretical framework and contributes to the tradition of Ovidian scholarship and interdiscplinary taboo studies.