Ovid in the Middle Ages: Exile, Mythographer, and Lover
Ralph Jay Hexter
This chapter reviews Ovid's poetic persona, which includes exile, mythographer, and lover in order. So popular was the image of exiled poet that some Carolingians adopted Ovidian pose even when their place 'exile' hardly so cruel as Scythia. Ovid himself was, course, perhaps greatest all Latin mythographers, but medieval authors seemed by large disinclined to attempt recreate Metamorphoses on a structural level. It is 'Ovid lover' who, imagination virtually every age, comes first mind, an based course his Amores , invite, love elegy always does, autobiographical reading. The conglomeration. As work combines these elements, thirteenth-century poem De Vetula can serve fitting conclusion this partial survey Middle Ages. Keywords: ; exile poetry; mythographer;
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