Modern Interpretations of Vertumnus and Pomona
David Littlefield finds in the episode a movement from rape to mutual desire, effected against an orderly, "civilised" Latian landscape
Conversely, Roxanne Gentilcore reads in its diction and narrative strategies images of deception, veiled threat and seduction, in which Pomona, the tamed hamadryad now embodying the orchard, does not have a voice.
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