Tristia and Epistulae ex Ponto are first of all literary works. Also during his exile, Ovid continues his contamination among genres; his persistent experimentation allows us to read his exilic elegies like a product of rhetoric and tragic rules. The aim of this essay is to value the implications of this theory analyzing the double meaning of the concept of error, that Ovid uses to describe his misfortune. Leaving out the historical hypothesis about Ovid’s relegatio, this paper aims to examine his ‘mistake’ through the rhetoric element of error and the tragic one of ἁμαρτία. Is possible to read the Ovidian exilic elegies like a rhetoric attempt of defense (a sort of purgatio for a case of constitutio generalis iuridicialis) and contemporary also like a tragic tale, constructed in accordance with the Aristotle’s Poetica and its principles?
Elegia, retorica e tragedia. L’error ovidiano tra purgatio e ἁμαρτία
L. Di Raimo
2020-01-01
Abstract
Tristia and Epistulae ex Ponto are first of all literary works. Also during his exile, Ovid continues his contamination among genres; his persistent experimentation allows us to read his exilic elegies like a product of rhetoric and tragic rules. The aim of this essay is to value the implications of this theory analyzing the double meaning of the concept of error, that Ovid uses to describe his misfortune. Leaving out the historical hypothesis about Ovid’s relegatio, this paper aims to examine his ‘mistake’ through the rhetoric element of error and the tragic one of ἁμαρτία. Is possible to read the Ovidian exilic elegies like a rhetoric attempt of defense (a sort of purgatio for a case of constitutio generalis iuridicialis) and contemporary also like a tragic tale, constructed in accordance with the Aristotle’s Poetica and its principles?I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
