Simile and Identity in Ovid's Metamorphoses

Nulli sua forma manebat. The world of Ovid''s Metamorphoses is marked by constant flux in which nothing keeps its original form. This book argues that Ovid uses the epic simile to capture states of unresolved identity - in the transition between human, animal and divine identity, as well as in the poem''s textual ambivalence between genres and the negotiation of fiction and reality. In conjuring u...