Abstract
This paper aims to analyse the presence of paralinguistic aspects in Ovid’s elegiac poetry of exile as an heritage of the teachings of the schools of declamation: actors and orators shared the importance given to the bodily language and to the voice, as well as the attention to the convenientia. The relevance of the oratorical performance already plays a significant role in the opening poems of the Tristia (1.1 and 3.1), where the elegy-book’s appearance reflects that of its author.
