Ovid in exile : power and poetic redress in the Tristia and Epistulae ex Ponto / by Matthew M. McGowan.

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McGowan, Matthew M [author.]

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TextSeries: Mnemosyne, bibliotheca classica Batava. Supplementum. Monographs on Greek and Roman language and literature. | Mnemosyne, bibliotheca classica Batava. Supplementum ; ; 309.Publisher: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2009Description: 1 online resource (viii, 261 pages)Content type:

text

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9789047424079
9047424077
9786612400032
661240003X
1282400037
9781282400030

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Ovid in exile.DDC classification:

871/.01 22

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PA6537 .M34 2009eb

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FX 191455
FX 191555
FX 191705
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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.

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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.

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-231) and indexes.

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.

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