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The Poems of Exile: Tristia and the Black Sea Letters
Ovid
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Paperback. Translator(s): Green, Peter. Num Pages: 535 pages, 1 map. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 32. Weight in Grams: 556.
In the year A.D. 8, Emperor Augustus sentenced the elegant, brilliant, and sophisticated Roman poet Ovid to exile - permanently, as it turned out - at Tomis, modern Constantza, on the Romanian coast of the Black Sea. The real reason for the emperor's action has never come to light, and all of Ovid's subsequent efforts to secure either a reprieve or, at the very least, a transfer to a less dangerous place of exile failed. Two millennia later, the agonized, witty, vivid, nostalgic, and often slyly malicious poems he wrote at Tomis remain as fresh as the day they were ... Read more
In the year A.D. 8, Emperor Augustus sentenced the elegant, brilliant, and sophisticated Roman poet Ovid to exile - permanently, as it turned out - at Tomis, modern Constantza, on the Romanian coast of the Black Sea. The real reason for the emperor's action has never come to light, and all of Ovid's subsequent efforts to secure either a reprieve or, at the very least, a transfer to a less dangerous place of exile failed. Two millennia later, the agonized, witty, vivid, nostalgic, and often slyly malicious poems he wrote at Tomis remain as fresh as the day they were ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Number of pages
535
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Condition
New
Number of Pages
546
Place of Publication
Berkerley, United States
ISBN
9780520242609
SKU
V9780520242609
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About Ovid
Peter Green is Dougherty Centennial Professor Emeritus of Classics at the University of Texas at Austin and Adjunct Professor of Classics at the University of Iowa.He is the author of many books, including Alexander of Macedon, 356-323 B.C.: A Historical Biography (California, 1991) and Alexander to Actium: The Historical Evolution of the Hellenistic Age (California, 1990).His translations include Juvenal: The ... Read more
Reviews for The Poems of Exile: Tristia and the Black Sea Letters
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 ... Read more