P. Ovidii Nasonis "Heroidum Epistula" 10

Ariadne's elegiac letter to her faithless Theseus offers the epistolary mise en scène of the heroine's lamentation previously versified by Catullus in his epyllion (carmen 64). The Ovidian text looks retrospectively at its predecessor and is inevitably indebted to it. This volume explores the complex relationship between the Ovidian and the Catullan model and focuses on literary memory, allusive forms, generic boundaries and transgression.