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<p>Schlapbach calls it "ironical". Richter argues that it is not autobiographical at all, but rather a <i>prolalia</i> <i>????????</i>, or playful literary work, and a "complicated meditation on a young man's acquisition of <i>[[paideia]]</i>" [i.e. education]. Russell dismisses The Dream as entirely fictional, noting, "We recall that <a href="page.php?w=Socrates">Socrates</a> too started as sculptor, and <a href="page.php?w=Ovid">Ovid</a>'s vision of Elegy and Tragedy (<a href="page.php?w=Amores_%28Ovid%29">Amores</a> 3.1) is all too similar to</p><p>
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