Sul problema dell’autenticità e della datazione della Consolatio ad Liviam

The paper focuses on the question of Consolatio ad Liviam’s author and date, which has been recently faced again in two important books. A survey of how the author of the epicedium introduces himself to the readers and a closer examination of the intertextual relationships between the Consolatio and Ovid’s works allow to prove with reasonable certainty that the poem was composed not before 13 A.D. (and therefore is not a ‘true’ epicedium for the death of Drusus) and that the author pretends to be Ovid (that is to say, the Consolatio is not just a ‘chronological’ fake, but a proper pseudepigraphon).