In trist. 2, 445f. Ovid indicates, as the cause of Cornelius Gallus’ misfortune, his excessive talkativeness resulting from drinking wine. On the contrary, he exonerates himself by saying that he never committed any crime nor did he offend Augustus while he was drunk (trist. 3, 5, 47f.). In fact, in Rome between late Republic and early Empire a charge of excessive drinking could be dangerous both from a moral point of view and because it could recall the political example of Antonius. By doing so, Ovid distances himself not only from the poet, who was his literary model, but also from a kind of poetry in which the traditional theme of wine drinking could be associated with ideologically dangerous environments.

L’ELEGIA, LA POLITICA, IL VINO: A PROPOSITO DI OVIDIO E DI CORNELIO GALLO / Borgo, Antonella. - In: PAIDEIA. - ISSN 0030-9435. - 70:(2015), pp. 13-26.

L’ELEGIA, LA POLITICA, IL VINO: A PROPOSITO DI OVIDIO E DI CORNELIO GALLO

BORGO, ANTONELLA
2015

Abstract

In trist. 2, 445f. Ovid indicates, as the cause of Cornelius Gallus’ misfortune, his excessive talkativeness resulting from drinking wine. On the contrary, he exonerates himself by saying that he never committed any crime nor did he offend Augustus while he was drunk (trist. 3, 5, 47f.). In fact, in Rome between late Republic and early Empire a charge of excessive drinking could be dangerous both from a moral point of view and because it could recall the political example of Antonius. By doing so, Ovid distances himself not only from the poet, who was his literary model, but also from a kind of poetry in which the traditional theme of wine drinking could be associated with ideologically dangerous environments.
2015
L’ELEGIA, LA POLITICA, IL VINO: A PROPOSITO DI OVIDIO E DI CORNELIO GALLO / Borgo, Antonella. - In: PAIDEIA. - ISSN 0030-9435. - 70:(2015), pp. 13-26.
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