Ovid's Metamorphoses and the Politics of Fiction
by
Andrew Feldherr
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2010
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...