Abschiedsbriefe. Horaz' und Ovids Epistolographisches Spätwerk

Author: Korenjak, M.

Source: Mnemosyne, Volume 58, Number 1, 2005 , pp. 46-61(16)

Publisher: BRILL

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Abstract:

Starting from the observation that both Horace's and Ovid's latest works are mainly epistolary in character, the present article argues that this similarity results from an analogous role assigned to these works by the two poets in the context of their literary production as a whole. In order to understand the nature of this role, the first part of the article sketches five characteristics shared by Horace's and Ovid's late epistolary poems as well as their background in ancient epistolary theory and practice. The second part explains that these features add up to mark the works in question as conclusion of their respective author's Complete Works (understood as a meaningfully structured sequence of single works) and shows how the resulting pattern picks up and varies the model set by Virgil's sequence Bucolics—Georgics —Aeneid.

Document Type: Research article

DOI: 10.1163/1568525053420824

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