THE LITERARY ‘SUCCESSOR’: OVIDIAN METAPOETRY AND METAPHOR

Abstract

Tristia 2. 1 All translations are my own. In addition to referring to Ovid's elegiac predecessors, treated at Tr. 2. Tibullus, and Propertius,, his ego successi (Tr. 2.467) also portrays Ovid as successor to the entire tradition (as tot, 469, stresses) of erotic Greco-Roman literature,