Playing gods : Ovid's Metamorphoses and the politics of fiction / Andrew Feldherr.

This book offers a novel interpretation of politics and identity in Ovid's epic poem of transformations, the Metamorphoses. Reexamining the emphatically fictional character of the poem, Playing Gods argues that Ovid uses the problem of fiction in the text to redefine the power of poetry in Augu...

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Main Author: Feldherr, Andrew, 1963-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, ©2010.
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505 0 |a Introduction -- Fiction and empire. Metamorphosis and fiction -- Wavering identity -- Spectacle. Homo spectator -- Poets in the arena -- Philomela again? -- Ovid and the visual arts. Faith in images -- "Songs the greater image" -- Conclusion. 
520 |a This book offers a novel interpretation of politics and identity in Ovid's epic poem of transformations, the Metamorphoses. Reexamining the emphatically fictional character of the poem, Playing Gods argues that Ovid uses the problem of fiction in the text to redefine the power of poetry in Augustan Rome. The book also provides the fullest account yet of how the poem relates to the range of cultural phenomena that defined and projected Augustan authority, including spectacle, theater, and the visual arts. Andrew Feldherr argues that a key to the political as well as literary power of the Metamo. 
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