This article analyses the power dynamics that Ovid stages in the Metamorphoses as interplay of rhetoric, monumental art, and poetry. It argues that (1) the transformations of gods can be read as a metaphor of rhetoric subjecting the audience to the speaker’s will; (2) that the products of the transformations of humans can be regarded as notional monuments to divine power; (3) that, for Ovid, all successful ideological constructs are based on a similar combination of rhetorical manipulation and “monumentalization”; (4) that, at the same time, Ovid casts metamorphosis as a product of the ability of the human imagination to recognize a human presence behind every non-human object, including the “monuments” constructed by superhuman powers; (5) that Ovid conceives of the “re-humanizing” effect of poetry as a function of its ability to make the audience recognize themselves in it; and (6) that the immortality that Ovid attributes to his own text is a function of his writing producing a similar effect on the readers.

本文分析了奥维德在《变形记》中的权力动态作为修辞，纪念性艺术和诗歌的相互作用。它认为（1）神灵的变化可以理解为修辞使听众服从说话者的意志的隐喻；(2) 人类转化的产物可以被视为神力的象征性纪念碑；(3) 对于奥维德来说，所有成功的意识形态建构都是基于修辞操纵和“纪念化”的类似组合；（4）与此同时，奥维德将变形视为人类想象力识别每个非人类物体背后的人类存在的能力的产物，包括由超人力量建造的“纪念碑”；(5) 奥维德认为诗歌的“重新人性化”效果是其使观众在其中认出自己的能力的功能；