Resumen de Versaque … Arctos erat: Ovid’s Callisto
By repeatedly referring to the constellation of the Great Bear (=Big Dipper) in the Tristia and the Epistulae ex Ponto, Ovid encourages his readers to look back at the story of Callisto in the Metamorphoses and the Fasti. Both poems feature a similar version of the myth, divergent from the previous tradition but bearing many resemblances with Ovid’s exile, which suggests that the poet revised these texts after his relegation to Tomis.
