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.

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Call Number: PA6537 .M34 2009

Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary material /
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  • Introduction - The redress of exile /
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  • Chapter One. Historical reality and poetic representation /
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  • Chapter Two. Crimes and punishments: The legitimacy of Ovid's banishment /
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  • Chapter Three. God and man: Caesar Augustus in Ovid's exilic mythology /
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  • Chapter Four. Religious ritual and poetic devotion: Ovid's representation of religion in Tr. and Pont. /
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  • Chapter Five. Space, justice, and the legal limits of empire: A comparative analysis of Fas, Ius, Lex, and Vates in Tr. and Pont. /
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  • Chapter Six. Ovidius Naso, poeta et exul: Ovid's identification with Homer and Ulysses in Tr. and Pont. /
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  • Conclusion - The exile's last word: Power and poetic redress on the margins of empire /
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  • Bibliography /
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  • Index locorum /
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  • Index verborum* /
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  • Index rerum /
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  • Supplements to Mnemosyne /
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