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Landolfi
Μετάβασις εἰς ἄλλο γένος: scelte biotiche e interdetti negli Amores
The Amores’ collection is rich in declarations of literary intents, among which the introductory poem stands out: in this elegy the poet announces a metabasis eis allo genos, by blending echos from Bio frr. 3 e 10 G. with echoes from Prop. 2.13a.1-4, in order to legitimise the transition from the original epic inspiration to the elegiac one. The motif occurs again in 2.1 and 18: in the first case Ovid justifies, for the second time, this evolution, in the latter he informs the reader of his comeback to the erotic elegy, after a break in the space of the tragedy and of the didascalic and/or epistolary poetry with erotic content (Ars, Heroides). Later, in Am. 3.1 the famous dispute between El…
Lo sguardo dell'esule. Per un' 'immagine mentale' di Roma fra Tristia ed Epistulae ex Ponto
Ovid’s production of exile reveals a different look at the city: a ‘mental image’ that dialogues with the rhetorical codification of the laudes urbium and, at the same time, selects the places that best celebrate the monumentality of Augustan Rome. Of particular interest is the description of the monumental complex on the Palatine Hill (Tr. 3, 1), inside which the protagonist (the liber) follows an itinerary that leads him directly from the Forum to the Palatium and its library. The library-curia, commissioned by Augustus, a political and cultural emblem, as well as a religious one, of the regime is a part of a monumental complex conceived as the new seat of power and represented a few year…
Comunicazione erotica non verbale a banchetto (a proposito di Ov. Am. 1, 4, 11-28; 2, 5, 13-20)
Esame di due passi trascelti da elegie degli Amores in cui la comunicazione erotica avvenga tramite linguaggio gestuale, a confine con la palliata e, insieme, con la specifica codificazione retorica.
Sulle tracce di Ovidio epico? Contese tra padri e figli in Ps. Quint. decl. 258
In the Minor Declamation 258 it is possible to notice some echoes of the Armorum iudicium of Ov. met. xiii 1-383, an episode whose success in Greece and Rome dates back to the Cyclic poems. Porcius Latro, the famous rhetorician and teacher of Ovid, chose this subject for one of his declamations and provided his pupil with a model: in fact, as showed by Sen. contr. ii 2, 8, the poet borrowed from the rhetor some literal expressions. We can also remember Sen. contr. x and Calp. decl. 21, two of the most important texts where the motifs of family disputes and reward for viri fortes are re-elaborated, in different ages. Therefore, the Minor declamation 258 is one of these interesting adaptation…