Images of Dead Poets in Roman Elegiac and Lyric Underworld
In this paper I analyse and compare the representations (or self-representations) of poets in the underworld in elegiac and lyric Roman poetry.I focus especially on five poems: Tibullus I.3; Propertius II.34; Ovid, Amores II.6 (birds as poets) and III.9; Horace, Odes II.13.It is not my intention to give a detailed interpretation of the whole poems;