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Banished Voices: Readings in Ovid's Exile Poetry (Cambridge Classical Studies)
$81.90
Brand: Cambridge University Press
Author: Williams, Gareth D.
Edition: 1
Number Of Pages: 248
EAN: 9780521036818
Release Date: 21-06-2007
Languages: English
Binding: paperback
Package Dimensions: 8.4 x 5.5 x 0.8 inches
Details: This study examines the literary complexities of the poetry Ovid wrote in Tomis, the poet's place of exile on the Black Sea after he was banished from Rome by the emperor Augustus in A.D. 8. Exile transforms Ovid into a melancholic poet of despair who claims that his creative faculties are in terminal decline. These claims are contested in this study through close and original analysis of the literary maneuvers that contradict Ovid's pose. The evidence thus revealed counteracts traditional scholarly antipathy to these poems.