Naso cothurnatus. Echi tragici e prassi spettacolare nell'epistolografia ovidiana dell'esilio.

Ovid's poetic career testifies a great contamination among genres, from the first works to the exilic ones. Also during his 'relegatio', he continues his experimentation. That allows us to read Tristia and Epistulae ex Ponto like a product of rhetoric, elegiac and tragic rules. The aim of this PhD dissertation is to value the influence of the ancient theatre (especially tragedy) on the tale of Ovid's misfortune, analizyng the concept of 'error' through the tragic element of ἁμαρτία, examining the description of Tomi and the settings of tragic plots, comparing the portrait of the 'exul' with the heroes protagonists of those plots and, after that, analyzing the poetic tecniques that Ovid seems to draw from Latin and Greek tragedies. Is possible to read the Ovidian exilic elegies like a tragic tale, constructed in accordance with the Aristotle’s Poetica and its principles? Is his 'relegatio' a new poetic tragedy in an elegiac form? Is Ovid a new tragic hero? This PhD dissertation tries to answer to these questions.