Abstract
Paradox, metamorphosis, spectacle. Ovidian sugges tions in Claudian’s Latin Gigantomachy. In the portrayal of the Giganto machia, one of Claudian’s most congenial mythological themes, the visual and spec tacular character of his poetry is brought out. Particularly in the Latin Giganto machia (carm. min. 53), Claudian is careful to capture the plastic and pictorial as pects of the episode, as well as its paradoxical and admirable features, with a tech nique that can be defined as ecphrastic. These modalities bring Claudian close to Ovid, to his poetics of visuality and spectacularisation, in line with some of the ten dencies that characterise the reception of Ovid in late antique aesthetics.
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