Ovid: Epistulae ex Ponto Book I
Ovid: Epistulae ex Ponto Book I

Author: Ovid

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2014-03-20

Total Pages: 292

ISBN-13: 1139867148

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When Ovid, already renowned for his love poetry, the Metamorphoses and other works, was exiled by Augustus to Tomis on the Black Sea in AD 8, he continued to write. After five books of Tristia, he composed a collection of verse letters, the Epistulae ex Ponto, in which he appeals to his friends and supporters in Rome, lamenting his lot and begging for their help in mitigating it. In these epistolary elegies his inventiveness flourishes no less than before and his imaginative self-fashioning is as ingenious and engaging as ever, although in a minor key. This commentary on Book I assists intermediate and advanced students in understanding Ovid's language and style, while guiding them in the appreciation of his poetic art. The introduction examines the literary background of the Epistulae ex Ponto, their relation to Ovid's earlier works, and their special interest and appeal to readers of Augustan poetry.

Epistulae Ex Ponto
Epistulae Ex Ponto

Author: Ovid

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 2005-10-06

Total Pages: 642

ISBN-13: 9780199277216

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The Epistulae ex Ponto are epistolary poems written by the banished Latin poet Ovid. They are a key text of exile literature. The present edition of the first book of these poems gives a revised Latin text, a new translation, an extended introduction, and the first full-scale commentary of the work in English.

Sorrows of an Exile
Sorrows of an Exile

Author: Ovid

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 1995

Total Pages: 173

ISBN-13: 9780192824523

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In AD 8 Ovid's brilliant career was abruptly ruined when the Emperor Augustus banished him, for reasons never satisfactorily explained, to Tomis (Constanta) on the Black Sea. The five books of Tristia (Sorrows) express his reaction to this savage and, as he clearly regarded it, unjust sentence. Though their ostensible theme is the misery and loneliness of exile, their real message, if they are read with the care they deserve, is one of affirmation. With a wit and irony that borders on defiance, Ovid repeatedly asserts the injustice of his sentence and of the preeminence of the eternal values of poetry over the ephemeral dictates of an earthly power. In technical skill and inventiveness these elegies rank with the Art of Love or the Fasti. For this new translation Alan Melville has reproduced, in rhyming stanzas, the virtuosity, wit, and elegance of the original.

The Poems of Exile
The Poems of Exile

Author: Ovid

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 2005-01-18

Total Pages: 540

ISBN-13: 9780520242609

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"This is no small achievement. For the language-lover the translation provides elegant, flowing English verse, for the classicist it conveys close approximation to the Latin meaning coupled with a sense of the movement and rhythmic variety of Ovid's language"—Geraldine Herbert-Brown, editor of Ovid's Fasti: Historical Readings at its Bimillennium "This book fills a gap. There is no similar annotated English translation of Ovid's exile poetry. Thoroughly grounded in Ovidian scholarship, Green's introduction and notes are helpful and informative. The translation is accurate, idiomatic, and lively, closely imitating the Latin elegiac couplet and capturing Ovid's changing moods."—Karl Galinsky, author of Ovid's Metamorphoses: An Introduction to the Basic Aspects

Silenced Voices
Silenced Voices

Author: Bartolo Natoli

Publisher: University of Wisconsin Pres

Published: 2017-08-15

Total Pages: 245

ISBN-13: 0299312100

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Examines speech loss across all of Ovid's writings and the ways that motif is explored, developed, and modified in the poet's work after his exile from Rome.

The Cambridge Companion to Ovid
The Cambridge Companion to Ovid

Author: Philip R. Hardie

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2002-05-02

Total Pages: 424

ISBN-13: 9780521775281

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Ovid was one of the greatest writers of classical antiquity, and arguably the single most influential ancient poet for post-classical literature and culture. In this Cambridge Companion, chapters by leading authorities from Europe and North America discuss the backgrounds and contexts for Ovid, the individual works, and his influence on later literature and art. Coverage of essential information is combined with exciting critical approaches. This Companion is designed both as an accessible handbook for the general reader who wishes to learn about Ovid, and as a series of stimulating essays for students of Latin poetry and of the classical tradition.

Ars amatoria
Ars amatoria

Author: Ovid

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 1989

Total Pages: 200

ISBN-13: 9780198147367

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Ovid's Ars Amatoria has met with astonishingly varied fortunes down the centuries. Ten years after publication the book became a reason, or more probably a pretext, for the author's banishment from Rome. It was removed from public libraries, and more recently the poem suffered a virtual embargo in schools and universities. This is the first detailed English commentary on any part of the poem. Examined afresh, it emerges as the wittiest of Ovid's love poems, turning upside down the attitudes and conventions of orthodox love elegy. The work is full of psychological insight and is richly embroidered with details of contemporary Roman social and political life. This new paperback edition intends to bring out the spirit of provocative frivolity which was undeniably meant to irritate Roman traditionalists. The text of Kenney's Oxford Classical Text is reproduced and supplemented with a full introduction to the style and historical background the poem, as well as with a full commentary and appendices.