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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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2010] ©2011 |
| Year of Publication: | 2010 |
| Edition: | Course Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (384 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part One: Fiction and Empire
- Chapter 1: Metamorphosis and Fiction
- Chapter 2: Wavering Identity
- Part Two: Spectacle
- Chapter 3: Homo Spectator: Sacrifice and the Making of Man
- Chapter 4: Poets in the Arena
- Chapter 5: Philomela Again?
- Part Three: Ovid and the Visual Arts
- Chapter 6: Faith in Images
- Chapter 7: "Songs the Greater Image"
- Conclusion
- References
- Index of Passages Cited
- General Index