OVIDIAN EPISTOLOGRAPHY: TRISTIA 1.1
OVIDIAN EPISTOLOGRAPHY: TRISTIA 1.1

Summary/Abstract: Ovid‟s opening poem of Tristia collection (1.1) is a beseeching for his absolution; as a literary piece of work, the text is charming and perfectly articulated. Most of its coherence proceeds from the enactment of an authentic epistolary construction, with surprising casting: the common roles – author, addressee, intermediate – are well defined and then redefined, mixed up, adorned with precise details known from ancient epistolography, that has to be understood in its precise frame and, again, in its poetic usage. Reading Tristia 1.1 as a letter multiplies the literary beauty of the poem (that was, all the same, ineffective for its exiled author).

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