The Exiled Ovid's Reception of Gallus
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9309678 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jo-Marie Claassen (corresponding author), Jo‐marie Claassen (corresponding author), Jo-Marie Claassen Jo-Marie Claassen |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 112 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 318-318 |
| Publication date | 2017-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Classical Journal (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0009-8353 • E-ISSN: 2327-5812 |
| Publisher | Classical Association of the Middle West and South (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.5184/classicalj.112.3.0318 |
| OpenAlex | W2581498147 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
The poet Cornelius Gallus may be termed the “first exiled poet” of the Augustan regime, although his banishment from Augustus' circle of friends (between 29 and 26 BCE) was probably political. He subsequently committed suicide and possibly underwent damnatio memoriae. In exile, Ovid appears to be consciously featuring allusions to Gallus. This paper examines some examples of such allusion that throw light on Ovid's relationship with Augustus. Most of what Gallus wrote is lost, so that sources available for comparison are relatively slight. Yet Ovid's exilic reception of Gallus, as far as it can be ascertained from comparison of his exilic oeuvre with the small Gallan corpus, casts an interesting light on the poet-prince relationship
Allusion · Art · Literature · Politics · Classical Antiquity Studies · History · Law
| Citations per year | 0.2 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2021 - 2021 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |