Playing Gods: Ovid's Metamorphoses and the Politics of Fiction

Playing Gods: Ovid's Metamorphoses and the Politics of Fiction

by Andrew Feldherr (Author)

Synopsis

Offers an interpretation of politics and identity in Ovid's epic poem of transformations, "The Metamorphoses". Examining the emphatically fictional character of the poem, this book argues that Ovid uses the problem of fiction in the text to redefine the power of poetry in Augustan Rome.

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Format: Hardcover
Pages: 390
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 05 Sep 2010

ISBN 10: 0691138141
ISBN 13: 9780691138145