Ovid's Poetics of Illusion
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: January 29, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 374
ISBN-13: 9780521030922
Subjects: Literary studies: classical, early & medieval; Poetry & poets: classical, early & medieval; Poetry; Language Arts & Disciplines; Literature - Classics / Criticism; Language; Ancient and Classical; Literary Collections / Ancient, Classical & Medieval; Literary Criticism / Poetry; Literary Criticism-Ancient and Classical; Ovid, --43 B.C.-17 or 18 A.D.--Technique Ovid; Ovid,--43 B.C.-17 or 18 A.D.--Technique; General
First sentence: Ovid delights to present himself as the poet of the Augustan here and now, the celebrant of the worldly and sensual abundance of post-Actian Rome: Ars 3.121-2 ego me nunc denique natum / gratulor: haec aetas moribus apta meis 'I count myself lucky to have been born now; this age suits my character.'