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Two Types of Ovidian Personification

2009; Classical Association of the Middle West and South; Volume: 104; Issue: 3 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1353/tcj.2009.0014

2327-5812

Arum Park,

Classical Antiquity Studies

In the proems of Ovid's "Amores", "Ars Amatoria" and "Remedia Amoris", the speaker manipulates various types of personification in his characterizations of amor, fallaciously advancing the notion that love is conquerable. I use Hesiodic and Platonic models of eros to identify two types of personified amor in Ovid's love poetry and the ways they are used to mislead the reader.