¿Fue Ovidio un poeta latino de la Edad de Plata?

Abstract

This paper illustrates how some of the principal characteristics of Ovid's Metamorphoses, which were considered by many scholars as models for Silver Latin epic poets, are, in fact, not very central to the poetic practice of the Neronian and Flavian authors. Even if the formal and stylistic parallels between these poets and Ovid are many, such as the use of paradox, the visual over-explicitness and accumulation of details, the purposes and the uses of different shared topoi are utterly different. The analysis of the nekya and the seastorm motives in Ovid, Lucan, Silius Italicus, Valerius Flaccus, and Statius shows that the Silver Latin poets draw on Vergil more often than on Ovid