Analysis of the Phaethon episode, the longest and most fantastic in Ovid's Metamorphoses; I argue that the extreme character of the imagination does not exclude links with the monumental reality of Imperial Rome, and with the Augustan ideology of turning the city into a spectacle of power.
Barchiesi, A. (2009). Phaethon and the monsters. In Paradox and the Marvellous in Augustan Poetry (pp. 163-188). OXFORD : Oxford UP.
Phaethon and the monsters
BARCHIESI, ALESSANDRO
2009-01-01
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Analysis of the Phaethon episode, the longest and most fantastic in Ovid's Metamorphoses; I argue that the extreme character of the imagination does not exclude links with the monumental reality of Imperial Rome, and with the Augustan ideology of turning the city into a spectacle of power.
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