Essay written for a pioneering collection of papers on the application of modern literary theory to ancient texts, focusing on closure as a narratological and ideological problem. Demonstrates how the controversial closing sections of Ovid's Metamorphoses and Fasti are saturated with tensions between the poet and the emperor, and closure becomes a struggle for power between the author and political authority.
Barchiesi, A. (1997). Endgames. In Classical Closure (pp. 181-208). PRINCETON : Princeton University Press.
Endgames
BARCHIESI, ALESSANDRO
1997-01-01
Abstract
Essay written for a pioneering collection of papers on the application of modern literary theory to ancient texts, focusing on closure as a narratological and ideological problem. Demonstrates how the controversial closing sections of Ovid's Metamorphoses and Fasti are saturated with tensions between the poet and the emperor, and closure becomes a struggle for power between the author and political authority.
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