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Description for Ovid
Paperback. Modelled on a poem of the same name by the Hellenistic poet Callimachus, Ibis stands out as an artistically contrived explosion of vitriol against an unnamed enemy who is characterised in terms of the Egyptian bird with its unprepossessing habits. This title presents a platform for the study of the poem's obscurities. Editor(s): Ellis, Robinson. Series: Bristol Phoenix Press Classic Editions. Num Pages: 290 pages, 2-colour cover. BIC Classification: 2ADL; DCF; DSBB; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 215 x 142 x 20. Weight in Grams: 362.
Ovid’s rarely studied Ibis is an elegiac companion-piece to the Tristia and Ex Ponto written after his banishment to the Black Sea in AD 8. Modelled on a poem of the same name by the Hellenistic poet Callimachus, Ibis stands out as an artistically contrived explosion of vitriol against an unnamed enemy who is characterised in terms of the Egyptian bird with its unprepossessing habits. Based in a tradition of curse-ritual, it is the most difficult of Ovid’s poems to penetrate. Robinson Ellis’s edition remains an indispensable – if typically eccentric – platform for the study of the poem’s obscurities. ... Read more
Ovid’s rarely studied Ibis is an elegiac companion-piece to the Tristia and Ex Ponto written after his banishment to the Black Sea in AD 8. Modelled on a poem of the same name by the Hellenistic poet Callimachus, Ibis stands out as an artistically contrived explosion of vitriol against an unnamed enemy who is characterised in terms of the Egyptian bird with its unprepossessing habits. Based in a tradition of curse-ritual, it is the most difficult of Ovid’s poems to penetrate. Robinson Ellis’s edition remains an indispensable – if typically eccentric – platform for the study of the poem’s obscurities. ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Liverpool University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
290
Condition
New
Series
Bristol Phoenix Press Classic Editions
Number of Pages
290
Place of Publication
, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781904675204
SKU
V9781904675204
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Ref
99-50
About Robinson Ellis (Ed.)
Robinson Ellis (1834–1913) was fellow of Trinity College, Oxford and Corpus Christi, where he eventually succeeded Henry Nettleship as Corpus Professor of Latin (1893). He also produced a major edition of Catullus. Gareth Williams is Professor of Classics at Columbia University, New York and is author of Banished Voices: Readings in Ovid’s Exile Poetry (1994). Roger Ellis is Senior Lecturer ... Read more
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