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Author McGowan, Matthew M., author.

Title Ovid in exile : power and poetic redress in the Tristia and Epistulae ex Ponto / by Matthew M. McGowan
Published Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2009

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 261 pages)
Series Mnemosyne. Supplements, 0169-8958 ; volume 309. Monographs on Greek and Roman language and literature
Mnemosyne, bibliotheca classica Batava. Supplementum. Monographs on Greek and Roman language and literature.
Mnemosyne, bibliotheca classica Batava. Supplementum ; 309.
Contents Acknowledgments -- Introduction. The redress of exile -- 1. Historical reality and poetic representation -- -- Myth and history -- 2. Crimes and punishments -- -- The law and Ovid -- -- The crimen in carmen -- -- Summary -- 3. God and man -- -- Princeps Divus -- -- Augustus deus praesens -- 4. Religious ritual and poetic devotion -- -- Reading religion -- -- The cult of the Caesars -- -- The theologia tripertita in Varro -- -- di quoque carminibus si fas est dicere fiunt -- -- Preliminary conclusion -- 5. Space, justice, and the legal limits of empire -- -- lus, lex, and the limits of Rome -- -- Vates et exul -- -- Germanicus : vates et princeps -- -- Summary -- 6. Ovidius, Naso, poeta et exul -- -- Ovid and Homer -- -- Ovid, Homer, and the ira principis -- -- Ars, ingenium, and the representation of lived experience -- Conclusion. The exile's last word -- Bibliography -- -- Reference works -- -- Abbreviations in bibliography -- -- Authors -- Index locorum -- Index Verborum -- Index rerum
Summary After being banished to the Black Sea by the Roman emperor Augustus in 8 AD, Ovid responded in verse by composing the "Tristia and Epistulae ex Ponto". This title analyzes, in particular, Ovid's representation of himself and the emperor Augustus against the background of Roman religion, law, and poetry
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-231) and indexes
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Subject Ovid, 43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D. -- Exile
Ovid, 43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D. Tristia.
Ovid, 43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D. Epistulae ex Ponto.
Ovid, 43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D. -- Homes and haunts -- Romania -- Constanța
SUBJECT Ovid, 43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D. fast
Ovidius Naso, Publius, 43 f.Kr.-17 e.Kr -- exil. sao
Ovidius Naso, Publius, 43 f.Kr.-17 e.Kr -- hem och besökta platser. sao
Ovidius Naso, Publius. swd
Epistulae ex Ponto (Ovid) fast
Tristia (Ovid) fast
Tristia. swd
Ex Ponto. swd
Subject Exiles -- Rome -- Biography
Exile (Punishment) in literature.
Exiles in literature.
Poets, Latin -- Biography
POETRY -- Ancient, Classical & Medieval.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Literary.
Exile (Punishment)
Exile (Punishment) in literature
Exiles
Exiles in literature
Homes
Literature
Poets, Latin
Exil Motiv
SUBJECT Constanța (Romania) -- In literature
Subject Romania -- Constanța
Rome (Empire)
Genre/Form Biographies
Biographies.
Biographies.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9789047424079
9047424077
9786612400032
661240003X
1282400037
9781282400030