The elegiac book: patterns and problems by Heyworth, SJ

“…A significant part of the Hellenistic heritage of the Latin poets of the first century BCE was a concern for the arrangement of their poems in books. There are clear traces of this in Catullus, when poems 1 and 22 show an interest in publication, for example, or the paired kiss poems 5 and 7 are pointedly separated. …”

The author of [Tibullus] 3.19 and 3.20: anonymous or Tibullus? by Heyworth, SJ

“…Poem 3.19 in the Tibullian corpus names Tibullus as the 'I' figure; the arguments against Tibullian authorship do not stand up to close examination, there are Tibullian elements to the poem and the relationship with Horace, Epistles 1.4 is easiest to understand if Tibullus is the author. …”

The Consolatio ad Liuiam and literary history by Heyworth, SJ

“…The poem may thus take a central place in Augustan literary history, alluding to several poets and the early works of Ovid, but itself alluded to by Ovid in exile. …”

locum tua tempora poscunt: topography in Ovid’s Fasti by Heyworth, SJ

“…After an initial exploration of the programmatic establishment of the theme of place in each poem, this chapter focuses on the thematic use of geography in the Fasti. …”

Sappho in Propertius? by Heyworth, SJ

“…The argument emerges from the close reading of almost twenty individual passages from the Propertian corpus, alongside the ‘Homeric Hymn to Aphrodite’ and a large number of passages from Sappho, notably her poem 1.…”

Some polyvalent intra- and inter-textualities in Fasti 3 by Heyworth, SJ

“…The Fasti is a particularly rich field for such examination, partly becomes it appears late in the poet’s life so there is a large amount of material to recall, but especially because the poem itself belongs to two periods. Initial composition was alongside the Metamorphoses — these were the works Ovid was working on before he was dispatched to Tomi, and each shows awareness of the other; but the published version, addressed to Germanicus, is Tiberian, and explicitly refers to his exile in book 4 (79-84). …”

An elegist's career: from Cynthia to Cornelia by Heyworth, SJ

“…Each cycle then returns to the personal elegy of lamentation in the Tristia; but even in exile Ovid expands his range with the curse poem Ibis, and more letters. <br> What of Propertius, Ovid's predecessor as love elegist? …”