Drawing on recent scholarship in art, film, literary theory, and gender studies, "A Web of Fantasies" examines the complexities, symbolism and interactions between gaze and image in Ovid's "Metamorphoses" and forms a gender-sensitive perspective. It is a feminist study of Ovid's epic, which includes many stories about change, in which discussions of viewers, viewing, and imagery strive to illuminate Ovid's constructions of male and female. Patricia Salzman-Mitchell discusses the text from the perspective of three types of gazes: of characters looking, of the poet who narrates visually charged...