Pseudo-Ovid

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Pseudo-Ovid or Pseudo-Ovidius is the name conventionally used to designate the author of a work forged in the name of Ovid or else erroneously attributed to him. The collective term for such texts is "Pseudo-Ovidiana".

Other pseudo-Ovidian works include:[1]

  • Consolatio ad Liviam de morte Drusi[2]
  • De cuculo
  • De fallaciis fortune
  • De Jano
  • De Lombardo et lumaca
  • De medicamine aurium
  • De medicamine surdi
  • De mirabilibus mundi
  • De pediculo
  • De philomela[2]
  • De pulice
  • De quattuor humoribus
  • De sompnio
  • De vetula
  • De ventre
  • Elegiae in Maecenatem[2]
  • Epistula Sapphus[2]
  • Nux[2]
  • Halieutica[2]

References[edit]

  1. ^ This list is taken from James G. Clark, Frank T. Coulson and Kathryn L. McKinley (eds.), Ovid in the Middle Ages (Cambridge University Press, 2011), p. 366, except where noted.
  2. ^ a b c d e f Ralph J. Hexter, "Shades of Ovid: Pseudo- (and para-) Ovidiana in the Middle Ages", in James G. Clark, Frank T. Coulson and Kathryn L. McKinley (eds.), Ovid in the Middle Ages (Cambridge University Press, 2011), pp. 284–309.