REALITY, PERSONA AND LITERARY PERSUASION - Walter Kißel, Ovid als Liebhaber und als Exilant. Die Aussage der Amores, Tristia und Epistulae ex Ponto . (Palingenesia 143.) Pp. 150. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner, 2025. Cased, €50. ISBN: 978-3-515-13982-3. - Christoph Mayr, Schwäche, Scheitern, Fehlverhalten. Die Darstellung von Fallibilität als Inszenierungsstrategie der Autor-persona bei Horaz, Ovid und Seneca. (Classica Monacensia 62.) Pp. 217. Tübingen: Narr Francke Attempto, 2024. Paper, €78. ISBN: 978-3-381-12981-2.

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• The objective is to analyze how love and exile are depicted in the works of Ovid and how fallibility is portrayed in Horace and Seneca.
• Literary analysis of Ovid's Amores, Tristia, and Epistulae ex Ponto
• Examination of author persona in works by Horace and Seneca
• Thematic exploration of fallibility and its narrative strategies
• Insights into the portrayal of love in Ovid's writings, especially the dichotomy of lover and exile.
• Identification of fallibility as a key inscenization strategy in Horace and Seneca's works.