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Yahoo! Answers: In Ovid's Metamorphoses, are Caesar and his assassins a parallelThis forum post is dated 04/23/10. If you feel it is old or outdated, please follow up with a question or comment and someone may be able to update it, or reply with newer information if you have it. - Poems
| Yahoo! Answers: In Ovid's Metamorphoses, are Caesar and his assassins a parallel Concerning Ovid's Metamorphoses: I'm writing a paper in which I argue that a unifying element in Ovid's Metamorphoses is a lack of permanency in all things. I argue that the gods start out as the beings in power (such as when Jove brings down the flood to wipe out the degenerate humans or when Jove kills Cronus) but that in the end, humans such as Caesar undergo an apotheosis. I've found myself confused about a particular parallel; specifically, is Caesar more like Cronus, having been overthrown by his underlings for being a tyrant as Cronus was by Jove, or is he more like the Earth, having been assassinated for having gone wrong, as Jove flooded the Earth? I am inclined to think it's the former, if only because in that case both Caesar and his assassins would be likened to gods. However, I am concerned that Ovid pays very little attention to this story, dedicating only a single line of poetry to it in Book 1, where as he opens the entire poem with the story of the flood and in doing so contrasts it to the very end of the poem, the assassination of Caesar. Thoughts? |
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