ABSTRACT
Among the poets who flourished in the Golden Age of Latin literature, Virgil and Ovid played an important part in the mediaeval revival of the classics that culminated in the period of the Renaissance. In the Carolingian Renaissance of the eighth century although scholars were mainly concerned with religious literature, some of them read and studied Ovid. As a result their compositions were no longer confined to the conventional themes of the classroom, but became subjective poems of an elegiac nature. Modoin, Bishop of Aubin, wrote elegiac poems so obviously influenced by Ovid that he was accorded the nickname Naso. Glosses from Ovids poetry in some ninth-century manuscripts bear witness to the fact that his poetry had a place in the curricula of the schools of that period. In assessing Ovids influence in the Middle Ages it is perhaps difficult to understand why he was also used to a great extent by writers on scientific subjects.
