Ovid’s ingenium

Authors

  • Daniel López-Cañete Quiles
Keywords: Ovid’s ingenium, Seneca the Elder and Horace, personal and rhetorical cultus, Julius Florus and Ovid, Horace and Ovid as an exiled poet, date of Ars Poetica

Abstract

This article attempts to elucidate the description of Ovid’s ingenium by Seneca the Elder (Contr. 2.2.8) through an inquiry into its rhetorical and poetic models, namely Ovid himself and Horace. Aspects of literary allusiveness in Seneca are therewith explored, as well as possible links, both literary and prosopograhical, between Horace’s Epistles and Ovid. Finally, an examination of Horatian influence on Seneca’s portrait of Ovid and on Ovid’s self-portrait as an exiled poet proves relevant to the question about the date of Horace’s Ars Poetica.

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López-Cañete Quiles, D. (2012). Ovid’s ingenium. Myrtia, 27, 111–146. Retrieved from https://revistas.um.es/myrtia/article/view/159411
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