Fatherhood as a Metaliterary Device: Interpreting Tragic Allusions in Metamorphoses 13
By Cecilia Cozzi, University of Cincinnati
In Ovid’s Metamorphoses, Ajax and Ulysses advance their claims to Achilles’ arms by enumerating their family histories (Met. 13.22-34 and 140-58). The rhetorical aspects of these speeches have inspired much scholarly debate (Otis 1970, Kennedy 1972, Gross 2000, Hopkinson 2000, Pavlock 2009), especially given the broader engagement of the carmen perpetuum with tragedy (Keith 2002, Gildenhard and Zissos 1999, Dangel 2009, Curley 2013).
Elegist on the Verge of a Wreck: Movement Metaphors in the Tristia and a Poetic Career in Review
By Luiza dos Santos Souza, University of Cincinnati
The poetic persona of the Tristia, who presents himself as the author of the Amores and Ars Amatoria, finds himself in a state of chaotic reevaluation. The literary constraints of exile introduce a new stage in his poetic career, far distant from the overconfidence of his earlier poetic persona(s) and expectations of perennial glory.
Tu mihi sola places: Politics, Law and Sex in Ovid's Ars Amatoria
By Isabel Cooperman, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Ovid writes in the Ars Amatoria that dum licet (“while it is allowed”), the prospective lover should tell a girl tu mihi sola places (“you alone please me”) (Ars 1.41-2). The traditional understanding of dum licet, expressed most clearly by Hollis (1977), interprets the phrase to mean “while you are not constrained by love”.