ghost: It is one of the paradoxes of Ovid's style and Ovid's world view that he can humanize his mythical material through exaggerating the nonhuman, fantastic elements of his tales to the point of grotesqueness. This paradox is a corollary of that pointed out by Otis, that the fanciful, Alexandrian, erotic mythology contains a kind of humane seriousness and an ultimate symbolical truth -a truth, that is, to the constants of human nature—that Ovid could not find in the contemporary, historical, Augustan mythology. In human terms, Ovid finds the remote, fairy-tale myths "truer" and more "real" than the contemporary myths of Augustan ideology.

It is one of the paradoxes of Ovid's style and Ovid's world view that he can humanize his mythical material through exaggerating the nonhuman, fantastic elements of his tales to the point of grotesqueness. This paradox is a corollary of that pointed out by Otis, that the fanciful, Alexandrian, erotic mythology contains a kind of humane seriousness and an ultimate symbolical truth -a truth, that is, to the constants of human nature—that Ovid could not find in the contemporary, historical, Augustan mythology. In human terms, Ovid finds the remote, fairy-tale myths "truer" and more "real" than the contemporary myths of Augustan ideology.

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