Thesis title: La pseudo-ovidiana Consolatio ad Liviam: commento lemmatico-perpetuo e analisi stilometrica.
This doctoral dissertation focuses on the pseudoepigraphic poem Consolatio ad Liviam, on which I have carried out a lemmatic commentary.
This work is organized into three distinct, yet closely interconnected parts, all aimed at providing new insights into the placement of the Consolatio ad Liviam within the broader context of ancient pseudoepigraphic literature.
With specific regard to the structure of the doctoral dissertation, I have adopted the following outline.
The first part serves as an introduction to the Commentary and addresses the main interpretative issues raised by the Consolatio ad Liviam, many of which remain unresolved and subject to scholarly debate. Following this introductory analysis, I developed the lemmatic commentary, which constitutes the second part of the work. Within this commentary, all philological and lexical aspects are examined in detail, together with the most significant historical and antiquarian issues related to the controversial question of the poem’s authenticity and authorship. Particular attention is also devoted to what can be inferred from the text regarding funerary practices in Augustan Rome. Finally, the third part of the study presents a stylometric analysis of the poem, undertaken in an attempt to shed light on the question of attribution.
Conclusively, I would like to emphasize that one of the main objectives of this research aims to combine “traditional” philological methods with more recent approaches based on computational and digital techniques.