TY  - JOUR
A1  - Kirichenko, Alexander
ED  - Ambühl, Annemarie
T1  - Sex, Macht und Fiktion in den Metamorphosen Ovids
JF  - thersites 11: tessellae – Birthday Issue for Christine Walde
N2  - This article analyses the eroticized power dynamics that Ovid stages in the Metamorphoses. It argues that 1) erotic desire functions in Ovid as a synonym of the desire for power; 2) that the transformations of gods can be read as a metaphor of the powerful subjecting the powerless to their will; 3) that metamorphosed humans can be regarded as notional monuments to divine power; and 4) that, by parading the self-evident fictionality of his transformation tales (including, most notably, the story of Julius Caesar’s apotheosis in Book 15), Ovid allows his readers, at least for the duration of the reading process, to experience a modicum of freedom.
KW  - Ovid
KW  - Metamorphoses
KW  - Augustus
KW  - political Eros
KW  - fictionality
Y1  - 2020
U6  - https://doi.org/10.34679/thersites.vol11.172
VL  - 2020
IS  - 11
SP  - 97
EP  - 116
ER  -