Quis hoc credat? O leitor e as Metamorfoses de Ovídio

This paper intends to analyze a certain relation constructed between the reader, the poet and the poem in selected passages of Ovid’s Metamorphoses book I. The reading we are going to propose will reveal itself as a new understanding of the poem in face of the recent studies which highlight the self-referential character of ovidian poetics. We intend to demonstrate, although briefly, that the reader has a highlighted role within the complex commentaries made by the poet about his own poetry.