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

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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1. Verfasser: Feldherr, Andrew, 1963-
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, ©2010.
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Zusammenfassung: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.
Beschreibung:1 online resource (x, 377 pages)
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
ISBN:9781400836543
1400836549
0691138141
9780691138145
1282936484
9781282936485
9786612936487
6612936487

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