This article revisits Th. Birt’s hypothesis that Ovid’s Heroides 1-15 consisted of three books of five epistles each. In favour of this proposition, arguments both literary and, in particular, philological are put forward: the traces of division found in the manuscript transmission are to be interpreted as authentic and not as a medieval innovation. The structure in three books of five epistles each also validates the place of the Epistula Sapphus in the collection as recorded in the Florilegium Gallicum.
Ter quinque: Tracce di divisione delle Heroides singole in tre libri nella tradizione manoscritta
Mirko Donninelli
2024
Abstract
This article revisits Th. Birt’s hypothesis that Ovid’s Heroides 1-15 consisted of three books of five epistles each. In favour of this proposition, arguments both literary and, in particular, philological are put forward: the traces of division found in the manuscript transmission are to be interpreted as authentic and not as a medieval innovation. The structure in three books of five epistles each also validates the place of the Epistula Sapphus in the collection as recorded in the Florilegium Gallicum.File in questo prodotto:
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