Global Ovid: Ovidian Echoes in the Age of Gongora

The writers of Gongora's age found in Ovid the quintessential master of poetic art. This article examines three properties of the Sulmona poet's writing that could explain his position of supremacy: his wit and humor, his invention of a political fiction that dresses the monarch and his court with the attributes of the Olympian gods, and finally, the elegiac subjectivity that permeates all his creations.

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This article examines three factors that contribute to the supremacy of Ovid as the quintessential master of poetic art in Gongora's age: his wit and humor, his creation of a political fiction that portrays the monarch and his court as the Olympian gods, and the elegiac subjectivity that permeates all his works.