In Ovid’s poetry of exile, reflection and fantasies about death realize a close and intense dialogue with the elegiac poetry of Tibullus and Propertius, with its motifs and mechanisms. Ovid always offers us a glimpse inside the world of literature, also working with his own earlier works and showing us how their assumptions are turned upside down in the inverted world in which he now lives a life similar to and worse than death.
Galasso, L., Fantasies of Death in Ovid's Poetry of Exile, in Farrell, J., Miller, J., Nelis, D., Schiesaro, A. (ed.), Ovid, Death and Transfiguration, BRILL, LEIDEN -- NLD 2023: 465 154- 173. DOI:10.1163/9789004528871_009 [https://hdl.handle.net/10807/244495]
Fantasies of Death in Ovid's Poetry of Exile
Galasso, Luigi
2023
Abstract
In Ovid’s poetry of exile, reflection and fantasies about death realize a close and intense dialogue with the elegiac poetry of Tibullus and Propertius, with its motifs and mechanisms. Ovid always offers us a glimpse inside the world of literature, also working with his own earlier works and showing us how their assumptions are turned upside down in the inverted world in which he now lives a life similar to and worse than death.
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