Sex, Macht und Fiktion in den Metamorphosen Ovids
- 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.
| Author details: | Alexander KirichenkoGND |
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| DOI: | https://doi.org/10.34679/thersites.vol11.172 |
| Title of parent work (German): | thersites 11: tessellae – Birthday Issue for Christine Walde |
| Editor(s): | Annemarie Ambühl |
| Publication type: | Article |
| Language: | German |
| Date of first publication: | 2020/11/25 |
| Publication year: | 2020 |
| Publishing institution: | Universität Potsdam |
| Release date: | 2020/12/15 |
| Tag: | Augustus; Metamorphoses; Ovid; fictionality; political Eros |
| Volume: | 2020 |
| Issue: | 11 |
| Number of pages: | 20 |
| First page: | 97 |
| Last Page: | 116 |
| Source: | thersites 11 (2020). - 97-116 |
| Organizational units: | Philosophische Fakultät / Historisches Institut |
| DDC classification: | 9 Geschichte und Geografie / 90 Geschichte / 900 Geschichte und Geografie |
| Peer review: | Referiert |
| Publishing method: | Open Access / Gold Open-Access |
| Collection(s): | Universität Potsdam / Zeitschriften / thersites, ISSN 2364-7612 / thersites Vol. 11 |
| License (German): |  CC-BY - Namensnennung 4.0 International |
