| Description |
1 online resource (x, 377 pages) |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
| Contents |
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. |
| Summary |
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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Ovid, 43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D. Metamorphoses.
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Metamorphoses (Ovid) |
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Fables, Latin -- History and criticism.
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Fables, Latin. |
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Politics and literature -- Rome.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Feldherr, Andrew, 1963- Playing gods. Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, ©2010 9780691138145 (DLC) 2010010198 (OCoLC)553368373 |
| ISBN |
9781400836543 (electronic book) |
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1400836549 (electronic book) |
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0691138141 (hardcover ; alkaline paper) |
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9780691138145 (hardcover ; alkaline paper) |
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9780691138145 |
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