Playing gods: Ovid's Metamorphoses and the politics of fiction

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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

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