Naslov
The Lovers and the Rebel: Reading the Double Heroides as an Exilic Text

Autori
Vuković, Krešimir

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Poglavlja u knjigama, znanstveni

Knjiga
Constructing Authors and Readers in the Appendices Vergiliana, Tibulliana, and Ouidiana

Urednik/ci
Franklinos, Tristan ; Fulkerson, Laurel

Izdavač
Oxford University Press

Grad
Oxford

Godina
2020

Raspon stranica
242-261

ISBN
9780198864417

Ključne riječi
Ovid, Heroides, exile, Augustus, Latin literature

Sažetak
A series of six poems exchanged between lovers (known as the double Heroides) is normally placed at the end of the collection of Ovid’s single Heroides. Their attribution has been questioned in recent decades. Much of the argument has devolved on stylistic features, especially polysyllabic pentameter endings. This chapter briefly revisits the issue by analysing some exilic passages in the Fasti and the Metamorphoses. Rather than making grand claims based on supposed stylistic features, the focus is on reading Ovid as a rebellious poet, a trait that consistently appears across his work from the Amores to the Tristia. By comparing passages from the exilic works with the text of the double Heroides, it is argued that reading Ovid as the author of both fits with our perspective on the great poet of nequitia. The conclusion is subjective, but opens up possibilities in reading the double letters as an exilic text.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Filologija

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