Ovid may be taking a special delight in filling the Virgilian outline with a spirit that directly challenges the lofty, tragic style that Virgil created for the Roman epic. As he does later in the story of Aeneas in book 14, Ovid challenges Virgil on his own ground, with his own material. In the Orpheus episode, it is not only the heroic style and the solemnity of tragic suffering and conflict that draw his fire, but also the self-importance of sacrifice and devotion to vast, transcendent purposes. Ovid continues a direction in Roman literature firmly established by Catullus and continued by Horace (or one side of Horace) and the elegists. Here the individual voices his claims to privacy, autonomy, and even to inactivity and directionlessness.
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