Ovidius Mythistoricus: Legendary Time in the Metamorphoses

by Thomas Cole

The Metamorphoses is rarely read as history, but its immediate models were both historiographical: the Chronica of Castor of Rhodes and the De Gente Populi Romani of Marcus Terentius Varro. They determined the poem's chronological ordering of episodes and anticipated the way it views dynastic history in the «mythical» era of Greece and Italy as both a prelude to, and a source of precedents for, Roman imperium and Roman ruler cult. Ovid's myth-historical...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3631569599
• ISBN13: 9783631569597
• Release Date: February 2008
• Publisher: Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der W
• Length: 222 Pages