First-person, homodiegetic, narrators in epic comment on emotions felt both at the time of the events narrated, and at the time of narrating, and also highlight the fact that what they narrate is drawn from memory. In Aeneas’ narratives in books 2 and 3 of the Aeneid, Virgil develops the precedents in the Odyssey, heightening the epic with tragic models of emotional internal narrators, part of the Aeneid’s concern with the generation of pathos, and reinforcing the importance of memory in the plot of the Aeneid. In the Metamorphoses, Ovidian narrators rework the Virgilian models, both in the production of enargeia, and in a complicated play of intertextual memory.