Quid Moror Exemplis

OVID'S MYTHOLOGICAL EXEMPLA sometimes seem excessively ornamental, or simply excessive, especially in the poems from exile. Nonetheless, we need not conclude that the frequent use of exempla throughout his works exemplifies contemporary rhetorical excesses, nor that Ovid's exilic exempla in particular prove his own artistic decline.' I shall argue below that, in both the pre-exilic poems and the elegies from exile, many of his apparently superfluous or inappropriate examples function to demonstrate the limits of the usefulness of paradigms and the desire to master tradition rather than be mastered by it. Particular attention will be given to Tr. 1.5, which illustrates many of the similarities between Ovid's pre-exilic and exilic techniques and anticipates many characteristics of the mythological examples found in subsequent Ovidian poems

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