Špilje, seks i kritika Augustove vlasti: Ovidijev pjesnički dijalog s Homerom, Hesiodom i Kalimahom.

This paper discusses the use of caves in Ovid's works. It focuses on several passages from Ars Amatoria, Fasti, and Metamorphoses in which Ovid uses cave imagery as part of his Golden age discourse. Ovid's use of cave as a motif in Golden age imagery is distinct from his Greek predecessors (Homer, Hesiod, and Callimachus) whose works he heavily drew on. Caves are sometimes dangerous, but most often they are presented as places of refuge, where one finds privacy from prying eyes including the gaze of Augustus, whose moral laws Ovid criticized. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]