... to the medieval literary tradition of letter writing ( Witt 80–81 ). 12 Baudri calls himself “Naso novus” in Carmen 90. Gerald Bond writes, “[N]o investigation of the abbot’s poetry has overlooked his Ovidianism, yet his particular and subtle treatment has only recently begun to attract detailed...

..., an Ovidian topos for representing the liminal stage of adolescence. (Of course, we should also note that none of these characters negotiates a normal crossing of that threshold.) In the case of Hermaphroditus, we might expect him to cross the limen from adolescent sexual ambiguity into full masculinity...