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Playing Gods: Ovid's Metamorphoses and the Politics of Fiction
Playing Gods Ovid's Metamorphoses and the Politics of Fiction
Author: 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 Augustan Rome. The book also provides the ...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780691138145
ISBN-10: 0691138141
Publication Date: 8/26/2010
Pages: 390
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Publisher: Princeton University Press
Book Type: Hardcover
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