Accademia Editorale What the Poet Saw: Ovid, the Error and the Theme of Sight in Tristia 2 Author(s): Jennifer Ingleheart Reviewed work(s): Source: Materiali e discussioni per l'analisi dei testi classici, No. 56 (2006), pp. 63-86 Published by: Fabrizio Serra editore Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/40236287 . Accessed: 25/07/2012 10:01 Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of the Terms & Conditions of Use, available at . http://www.jstor.org/page/info/about/policies/terms.jsp . JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover, use, and build upon a wide range of content in a trusted digital archive. We use information technology and tools to increase productivity and facilitate new forms of scholarship. For more information about JSTOR, please contact
[email protected]. Fabrizio Serra editore and Accademia Editorale are collaborating with JSTOR to digitize, preserve and extend access to Materiali e discussioni per l'analisi dei testi classici. http://www.jstor.org Jennifer Ingleheart What The Poet Saw: Ovid, the error and the thème of sight in Tristiaz1 famously attributeshis relegation of ad 8 to two distinct causes: a poem and a mysterious mistake, which he must not discuss for fear that talking about it might compound the of- fence alreadycaused by his misdeeds to Augustus, the agent of his banishment: perdiderintcum me duo elimina, Carmenet error, alterius facti culpa silenda mihi:2 nam non sum tanti, renouem ut tua uulnera, Caesar, quem nimio plus est indoluisse semel. itera pars superest, qua, turpi carminé facto,3 1 Audiences at the Classical Association Annual Conference in Warwick in 2003, and Durham, Exeter, Manchester, Oxford and ucl between January 2003 and Febru- ary 2005, hâve helped to improve this paper.