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Autore |
Feldherr Andrew <1963-> |
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Titolo |
Playing gods [[electronic resource] ] : Ovid's Metamorphoses and the politics of fiction / / Andrew Feldherr |
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Princeton, : Princeton University Press, 2010 |
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ISBN |
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1-282-93648-4 |
9786612936487 |
1-4008-3654-9 |
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Edizione |
[Course Book] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (390 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Fables, Latin - History and criticism |
Politics and literature - Rome |
Electronic books. |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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 |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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 Metamorphoses is the way it manipulates its readers' awareness that its stories cannot possibly be true. By continually juxtaposing the imaginary and the real, Ovid shows how a |
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