Playing Gods: Ovid's Metamorphoses and the Politics of Fiction

by 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 fullest account yet of how the poem relates to the range of cultural phenomena that defined and projected...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691138141
• ISBN13: 9780691138145
• Release Date: September 2010
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.2" x 9.2"