Originally presented as the author's thesis (doctoral)--Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, 1995.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 253-268) and index.

Preliminary Material / P. Ovidius Naso and Theodor Heinze -- Ovids Kenntnis Des Argonauten- uno Medeamythos / P. Ovidius Naso and Theodor Heinze -- Der Argonauten- Uno Medeastoff in Ovids Werken / P. Ovidius Naso and Theodor Heinze -- Zur Datierung Des XII. Briefes und Der Tragödie Medea / P. Ovidius Naso and Theodor Heinze -- Der XII. Brief / P. Ovidius Naso and Theodor Heinze -- Conspectvs Siglorvm / P. Ovidius Naso and Theodor Heinze -- Überblick Über Inhalt und Strukturelemente / P. Ovidius Naso and Theodor Heinze -- Einleitung / P. Ovidius Naso and Theodor Heinze -- P.Ovidii Nasonis Medeae Fragmenta / P. Ovidius Naso and Theodor Heinze -- Testimonia / P. Ovidius Naso and Theodor Heinze -- Kommentar / P. Ovidius Naso and Theodor Heinze -- Siglen und Abkürzungen / P. Ovidius Naso and Theodor Heinze -- Ausgaben,Übersetzungen,Kommentare / P. Ovidius Naso and Theodor Heinze -- Titel in Alphabetischer Reihenfolge / P. Ovidius Naso and Theodor Heinze -- Index Verborvm / P. Ovidius Naso and Theodor Heinze -- Index Nominvm / P. Ovidius Naso and Theodor Heinze -- Index Rervm / P. Ovidius Naso and Theodor Heinze -- Index Locorvm / P. Ovidius Naso and Theodor Heinze -- Supplements to Mnemosyne / J.M. Bremer , L.F. Janssen , H. Pinkster , H. W. Pleket , C.J. Ruijgh and P.H. Schrijvers.

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This volume contains a critical edition of Ovid's epistle of Medea to Jason, together with the fragments of his lost tragedy Medea , including testimonia . Introduction and commentary deal with matters of language, realia , textual, authenticity, and literary criticism. An examination of the arguments recently put forward against the authenticity of the 12th letter yielded that it cannot be denied Ovidian authorship. Numerous parallels illustrate in particular Ovid's handling of his literary antecedents, notably Euripides and Apollonios. Intensive discussions are also given to questions of genre, epistolary form, influence of elegy and rhetoric, the letter's structure and its position in the collection. The appendix offers a convenient critical summary of the research on Ovid's Medea , together with an extensive commentary on the two fragments.

Texts in Latin, commentary in German.