Appendix Ovidiana: Latin Poems Ascribed to Ovid in the Middle Ages
Ralph Hexter, "Appendix Ovidiana: Latin Poems Ascribed to Ovid in the Middle Ages "
English | ISBN: 0674238389 | 2020 | 544 pages | PDF | 5 MB
English | ISBN: 0674238389 | 2020 | 544 pages | PDF | 5 MB
When does imitation of an author morph into masquerade? Although the Roman writer Ovid died in the first century CE, many new Latin poems were ascribed to him from the sixth until the fifteenth century. Like the Appendix Vergiliana, these verses reflect different understandings of an admired Classical poet and expand his legacy throughout the Middle Ages.
The works of the “medieval Ovid” mirror the dazzling variety of their original. The
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