Carminis Personae – Character in Roman Poetry

Maria Grazia Iodice is a Professor of Latin Language and Literature at the Faculty of Humanities of the Sapienza University of Rome. Her research interests are Ovid, Virgil, Cicero and educational problems of the classic. She has held training courses for teachers of secondary schools in Rome and various cities of Italy, as well as an advanced course in distance for the teaching staff and for young graduates titled Teaching the language and Latin culture. Mariusz Zagórski is a lecturer at the Department of Classics at University of Warsaw. His research interests include Roman poetry, especially epic and elegy, as well as modern literary theory and translation. He has published on Ovid, Cicero, early Christian rhetoric and Neo Latin poetry.

• Contents: Paolo Fedeli: Orazio, Carm. 4.2 e il conflitto dei generi poetici – Barbara Milewska-Waźbińska: Gaius Cornelius Gallus come personaggio letterario – Jakub Pigoń: Camilla and Asbyte: Two Female Warriors in Roman Epic – Theodora Chrysostomou: Die Selbstinterpretation des Dichters bei Tibull – Krzysztof Rzepkowski: Il personaggio della lena nella commedia e nella poesia romana – Mariusz Zagórski: Lovers in Dialogue: Roman Elegy and the Bakhtinian Concept of Character – Maria Grazia Iodice: Figure paterne nei primi due libri delle Metamorfosi di Ovidio – Elżbieta Wesołowska: Ariadne, Medea, and Gratitude. Some Remarks – Aldo Luisi: Livia cantata da Ovidio tra realtà e finzione letteraria.