Feldherr Playing Gods

Ovid's Metamorphoses and the Politics of Fiction
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ISBN: 978-1-4008-3654-3
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
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E-Book, Englisch, 384 Seiten

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Autoren/Hrsg.

Feldherr, Andrew M

Feldherr, Andrew

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Klassische Literaturwissenschaft
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Lyrik und Dichter

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments ix

Introduction 1

Part One: Fiction and Empire 13

Chapter 1: Metamorphosis and Fiction 15

Io and Syrinx 15

Metamorphosis 26

Beyond Belief 46

Chapter 2: Wavering Identity 60

Imitations of Immortality 63

Reception and Social Identity 83

Upward Mobility? 106

Part Two: Spectacle 123

Chapter 3: Homo Spectator: Sacrifice and the Making of Man 125

Creations 125

Pythagoras 149

Chapter 4: Poets in the Arena 160

Chapter 5: Philomela Again? 199

Part Three: Ovid and the Visual Arts 241

Chapter 6: Faith in Images 243

Pygmalion 257

Domestic Goddesses 276

Chapter 7: "Songs the Greater Image" 293

Reconciling Niobe 295

Perseus: The Shadow 313

Conclusion 342

References 351

Index of Passages Cited 365

General Index 373

Über Autor(innen)

Andrew Feldherr is professor of classics at Princeton University. He is the author of Spectacle and Society in Livy's History and the editor of The Cambridge Companion to the Roman Historians.