Playing gods
Subtitle: Ovid's Metamorphoses and the politics of fiction
By: Andrew Feldherr.
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Princeton
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780691138145
Subjects: Ovid, -- 43 B.C.-17 or 18 A.D; Fables, Latin -- History and criticism; Politics and literature -- Rome
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Fiction and empire. Metamorphosis and fiction; title: Wavering identity; title: Spectacle. Homo spectator; title: Poets in the arena; title: Philomela again?; title: Ovid and the visual arts. Faith in images; title: "Songs the greater image"; title: Conclusion.