A Poet between Two Worlds

Abstract

This chapter examines the reception of Ovid's erotic and exilic elegies in the Latin literature of late antiquity (fourth to sixth centuries CE). Revising Hermann Fränkel's thesis of Ovid as a “poet between two worlds,” it draws particular attention to a number of examples in which late antiquity authors allude to Ovid as a means of reflecting on the transitions taking place in their own time, with the emergence of Christianity and the disintegration of the Roman Empire. Texts discussed include Rutilius Namatianus, De Reditu; Dracontius, Satisfactio; Orientius, Commonitorium; and the elegiac collection of Maximianus.

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