The Transformations of the Writing Body: Rhetoric, Monumental Art, and Poetry in Ovid's Metamorphoses.
This article analyses the power dynamics that Ovid stages in the Metamorphoses as interplay of rhetoric, monumental art, and poetry. It argues that (1) the transformations of gods can be read as a metaphor of rhetoric subjecting the audience to the speaker's will; (2) that the products of the transf...
| Publicado en: | Symbolae Osloenses Vol. 95; no. 1; pp. 104 - 159 |
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