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The Rhetoric of Nomina in Ovid's Tristia
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9308971 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Ellen Oliensis (Yale University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1997 |
| Volume | 26 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 172-193 |
| Publication date | 1997-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Ramus (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0048-671X • E-ISSN: 2202-932X |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0048671x00001995 |
| OpenAlex | W2485193465 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 16 |
| References cited | 6 |
As Betty Rose Nagle has remarked, Ovid's exile poetry deploys proper names within a kind of economy: ‘Ovid immortalises his own name by publicising it and exhorting his friends and readers to keep it alive, and he rewards his friends for actively remembering him by immortalising them, i.e. by putting their names in his poetry.’ What interests me here is the shortcircuiting of this system of exchange within the Tristia . For one of the most striking features of Ovid's first run of exilic elegies is precisely the omission of the names of Ovid's addressees. As Ovid will claim in the poem that opens the Epistulae ex Ponto , it is this omission (along with a change of title) that differentiates the Tristia poems from their successors: inuenies, quamuis non est miserabilis index, non minus hoc illo triste, quod ante dedi. rebus idem, titulo differt; et epistula cui sit non occultato nomine missa docet. ( Ex Pont . 1.1.15-18)
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Monumental Insignificance
Cataloguing Contemporaries
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Crippling Nostalgia
The Pedant’s Curse
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Child's Play
Signatures Events Contexts
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| Unique citing works | 16 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,67 |
| Citation span | 2002 - 2026 (25) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 15 |