Competing itineraries, travel, and urban subjectivity in Ovid's Ars Amatoria
DOI
10.4324/9781003120773
Abstract
This chapter examines two parallel narratives describing monuments in Rome, which appear in Ovid’s Ars Amatoria books 1 and 3, a poem published c. 2 BCE-2 CE. In each narrative, Ovid describes traveling through the city, moving from monument to monument. Zimmermann Damer argues that Ovid recognizes the power that such urban travel has to shape the traveler, and that Ovid’s competing narratives construct different ideologies that constitute distinctively gendered identities for male and female travelers, both through the urban architecture they engage with and through their own styles of movement. These narratives diminish Augustus’ role in transforming the city in Book 1, while emphasizing Augustus’ family in Book 3.
Document Type
Book Chapter
ISBN
9781003120773
Publication Date
2021
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© 2026 Informa UK Limited
Recommended Citation
Dame, Erika Zimmerman. 2021. “Competing Itineraries, Travel, and Urban Subjectivity in Ovid’s Ars Amatoria.” In Travel, Geography, and Empire in Latin Poetry, edited by Micah Young Myers and Erika Zimmermann Damer, Routledge, 114 -133. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003120773
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