"Distant Mores, distant mores: Persuading the Reader from the Margins in Tristia 2"

ELEONORA TOLA

ARETHUSA

Johns Hopkins University Press

Lugar: Baltimore; Año: 2021 vol. 53 p. 175 - 190

0004-0975

The problem of free speech in relation to political power is a major issue of Ovid´s Tristia and Ex Ponto collections. A complex blending of literary and rhetorical features allows the poet in exile to associate his self-representation in Tomis with a comprehensive review of his poetic career. From some programmatic statements in Tristia 2, I revisit Ovid´s manipulation of speech in exile. The poet´s persuasive goal about his exilic situation involves the emperor but also a wider audience, which is invited to reconsider Ovid´s poetic status on the margins of the empire and in the margins, or at least between the lines, of his text.