Qvaerenti Plvra Legendvm: On the Necessity of ‘Reading More’ in Ovid's Exile Poetry

Abstract

In this article I propose to explore the disposition which the reader must bring to bear to Ovid's exilic works. More specifically, I want to begin by considering the way in which Ovid himself shapes or represents the attitude of his reader; that is, the way in which the text explicitly or implicitly shapes his ideal reader, and gives him indications as to how to read the new works which gradually reach Rome from Pontus. We start at the beginning: Tr. 1.1.

TIRESIAS, OVID, GENDER AND TROUBLE: GENERIC CONVERSIONS FROMARSINTOTRISTIA

“…103 As Hinds (2007) (2007) and Ingleheart (2006), 66. On Ovid's urges to his model reader to 'read more' in the exile poetry see Casali (1997). 105 A view championed by Deville (1859), 50-61, see Thibault (1964), 73-4.…”

“…On Ovid and the conspiracy theorists see Hinds (2007) and Ingleheart (2006), 66. On Ovid's urges to his model reader to 'read more' in the exile poetry see Casali (1997). punishment for writing the Ars, it would follow that the party offended by the carmen, and indeed the divine monarch who sentenced Tiresias/Ovid to blinding/exile, was not so much Jupiter/Augustus but rather his wife Juno/Livia, incidentally the same goddess who was also the only deity to rejoice at the punishment inflicted on Actaeon (sola Iouis coniunx…gaudet, Met.…”

“…103.On Ovid and the conspiracy theorists see Hinds (2007) and Ingleheart (2006), 66. On Ovid's urges to his model reader to ‘read more’ in the exile poetry see Casali (1997). …”

The Pedant’s Curse: Obscurity and Identity in Ovid’s Ibis

“…Cf., e.g., André (1963) vi: "Les concordances formelles de Trist.,1,6,13,et Ibis,9, suggèrent l'identité du personnage"; more recently, scholars such as Helzle (2009) have taken up the mantle of this argument. Casali (1997) 103 rightly notes that "it is impossible to establish who out of the other enemies assailed by Ovid in the Tristia and Epistulae ex Ponto could be identified with 'Ibis'. .…”

Ο Λόγος Της Εξορίας

“…12, OLD s.v. 'pecco' 1.b, OLD απέναντι στους επικούς βασιλείς συνιστά κατά τον Casali ένα χαρακτηριστικό γνώρισμα που το διαθέτει, αν και σε μικρότερο και πιο διακριτικό βαθμό, η οβιδιακή ποίηση της εξορίας στα χωρία εκείνα που καθορίζεται η σχέση της με την πολιτική εξουσία της Ρώμης.33 Και αυτά τα χωρία αξίζει να σημειωθεί ότι, με εξαίρεση την εντελώς ιδιότυπη περίπτωση του δεύτερου βιβλίου των Tristia, αυξάνουν σημαντικά στις Epistulae ex Ponto σε σχέση με τα Tristia Casali (1997). 96-102, σε μια εξαιρετική ανάλυση της αντιπαραβολής της οβιδιακής ποίησης από την εξορία με τον Θερσίτη.…”