Between querellae and the ars: sketches of a rhetoric of seduction in Ovid’s Heroide 15
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https://doi.org/10.14409/argos.2024.51.e0066Keywords:
Ovid, Heroides, Sappho, Proem in the middle, IntratextualityAbstract
The authenticity of Ovid’s Heroide 15 (Sappho Phaoni) has triggered much
critical controversy. In its light, I revisit Sappho’s letter to show some narrative,
intratextual and stylistic strategies that reveal its transitional role between the other
single (1-15) and double (16-21) elegies. I focus on two major points: I examine to
what extent this Heroide features as a “proem in the middle” that governs the
whole collection; and I draw attention on how its inscription in the elegiac
discourse anticipates some aspects of Ovid’s Ars and thus demarcates some key
issues of his literary writing.
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