Ovid in exile : power and poetic redress in the Tristia and Epistulae ex Ponto /

In response to being exiled to the Black Sea by the Roman emperor Augustus in 8 AD, Ovid began to compose the Tristia and Epistulae ex Ponto and to create for himself a place of intellectual refuge. From there he was able to reflect out loud on how and why his own art had been legally banned and lef...

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Main Author: McGowan, Matthew M.

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Boston : Brill, 2009.

Series: Mnemosyne, Supplements 309.
Mnemosyne Supplements Online, Volumes 204-407, ISBN: 9789004322288.

Subjects:

Ovid, > 43 B.C.-17 or 18 A.D. > Epistulae ex Ponto.

Ovid, > 43 B.C.-17 or 18 A.D. > Tristia.

Ovid, > 43 B.C.-17 or 18 A.D. > Exile.

Ovid, > 43 B.C.-17 or 18 A.D. > Homes and haunts > Constanța.