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Olbion, Rather, he strains the limits of Forschungsquellen by aligning Drayton's visual English geography with an Ovidian "cosmic" mapping based upon the Metamorphoses chronological trans-Mediterranean drift towards Roman Italy bolstered by recent scholarship elaborating hegemonic self-consciousness among Augustan writers. Nevertheless, the Fasti, containing its own archival share of transformational mythology, is, like Poly-Olbion, segmentally structured, and its speaker likewise engages in dialogue with multiple voices mapping Roman spaces to illuminate the interassociation of landscape, legend, and the ritual year. While the subversive ironies of Ovid's poem flaunt the inevitability of change as a counter to forms of authoritarian domination, its potential within the more affirmative political climate of Elizabethan England breeds apprehension along with admiration. In exploring the darker tensions emanating from this cultural interface with subtle readings and felicitous generalizations, Lyne enters into what he terms the "post-modern aesthetics" of Ovidian scholarship. ELEANOR WINSOR LEACH Indiana University