Abstract

Anger is a motif which Latin Elegy takes back in Homeric Epic and rewrites. This motif is not exclusively psychological. Catullus registers the pathetic anger of Ariadne in the political time which begins when the Golden Age comes to an end. Ovid distingues himself from Tibullus and Propertius by representing passionate angers and the anger of the Princeps. So the question of the exercise of power, important in the Metamorphoses, cannot be dissociate from the one of the double presence of passionate and political anger, in the Ovidian elegies : is it legitimate to exercise power by being dominated by passion ?

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