LEADER 03937nam 2200649Ia 450 001 9910459325403321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-282-93648-4 010 $a9786612936487 010 $a1-4008-3654-9 024 7 $a10.1515/9781400836543 035 $a(CKB)2670000000034802 035 $a(EBL)574433 035 $a(OCoLC)659590191 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000425403 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11303708 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000425403 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10368239 035 $a(PQKB)10384076 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC574433 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse36836 035 $a(DE-B1597)446664 035 $a(OCoLC)979754801 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781400836543 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL574433 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10405140 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL293648 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000034802 100 $a20100312d2010 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aPlaying gods$b[electronic resource] $eOvid's Metamorphoses and the politics of fiction /$fAndrew Feldherr 205 $aCourse Book 210 $aPrinceton $cPrinceton University Press$d2010 215 $a1 online resource (390 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-691-13814-1 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and indexes. 327 $t Frontmatter -- $tContents -- $tAcknowledgments -- $tIntroduction -- $tPart One: Fiction and Empire -- $tChapter 1: Metamorphosis and Fiction -- $tChapter 2: Wavering Identity -- $tPart Two: Spectacle -- $tChapter 3: Homo Spectator: Sacrifice and the Making of Man -- $tChapter 4: Poets in the Arena -- $tChapter 5: Philomela Again? -- $tPart Three: Ovid and the Visual Arts -- $tChapter 6: Faith in Images -- $tChapter 7: "Songs the Greater Image" -- $tConclusion -- $tReferences -- $tIndex of Passages Cited -- $tGeneral Index 330 $aThis 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 poem made up of fictions can and cannot acquire the authority and presence of other discursive forms. One important way that the poem does this is through narratives that create a "double vision" by casting characters as both mythical figures and enduring presences in the physical landscapes of its readers. This narrative device creates the kind of tensions between identification and distance that Augustan Romans would have felt when experiencing imperial spectacle and other contemporary cultural forms. Full of original interpretations, Playing Gods constructs a model for political readings of fiction that will be useful not only to classicists but to literary theorists and cultural historians in other fields. 606 $aFables, Latin$xHistory and criticism 606 $aPolitics and literature$zRome 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aFables, Latin$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aPolitics and literature 676 $a873/.01 700 $aFeldherr$b Andrew$f1963-$0261210 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910459325403321 996 $aPlaying gods$9830364 997 $aUNINA