The Ibis of Ovid, an enigmatic poem written during the poet's exile at Tomis, contains a series of violent imprecations drawn from history and mythology. Although the poem is, in many aspects, different fromthe other works by the poet, it shares with them a common feature of his production: the mythological references. Scholars have tended to set the Ibis aside when investigating Ovid's exile poetry or they haverather focused on answering a limited series of questions, summarized by Williams (1996: 3) as: "Who is Ibis? What had he done to provoke Ovid's curse? What can be inferred from the Ovidian poem aboutthe length, meter, and (extra-)literary purpose of Callimachus's Ἶβις? Who was Ἶβις?", and only few have stopped to consider the Ovidia...