Pseudo-Ovid or Pseudo-Ovidius is the name conventionally used to designate any author of a work falsely attributed to the Latin poet Ovid (43 BC – AD 17/18). The term first appears in the second edition of the Lexicon Latinae Linguae Antibarbarum Quadripartitum of Johann Friedrich Nolte in 1744.[1] The collective term for such texts is Pseudo-Ovidiana, which may be defined simply as "works not authored by Ovid that circulated under his name".[2]
An English translation of the collective Pseudo-Ovidiana was published as part of the Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library in 2020 under the title Appendix Ovidiana, by analogy with the Appendix Vergiliana.[3]
- ^ Hexter 2011, p. 286.
- ^ Hexter 2011, p. 284.
- ^ Hexter, Pfuntner & Haynes 2020.