Identity crisis: scriptae personae in Ovid's Amores 1.4 and 2.5
Issue Date
2011-08-31Author
Imair, Monique S.
Publisher
University of Kansas
Format
71 pages
Type
Thesis
Degree Level
M.A.
Discipline
Classics
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The purpose of this thesis is to discuss the multifaceted personae of Ovid's Amores, specifically in Amores 1.4 and 2.5. These personae range from Ovid as poet (poeta), lover (amator), and love teacher (praeceptor amoris); the poet's love interest, the puella; the rival, the vir; other unnamed rivals; and reader. I argue that Ovid complicates the roles of the (italic)personae(/italic) in his poetry by means of subversion, inversion and amalgamation. Furthermore, I conclude that as readers, when we understand how these personae interact with each other and ourselves (as readers), we can better comprehend Ovid's poetry and quite possibly gain some insight into his other poetic works.
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