Chapter focuses on Naso’s self-canonizing claims to immortality and his allusive, self-reflexive elegy for Corinna’s parrot, showing how these poems are not just authorial pronouncements coming to us direct from Ovid, but moves in a game Naso is playing with (against) his girlfriend. It emerges that the poet’s grand claims have a contrastive emphasis, whereby Naso’s high pursuits are set off against his girlfriend’s mundane arts. Chapter ends with a discussion of rivalry, focusing on the figures of Dipsas, Tibullus, and the personified Elegy. Key poems: Amores 1.14 and 1.15; 2.5, 2.6, 2.8; 3.14 and 3.15; 1.8 and 3.9.