Poems of Exile Tristia and the Black Sea Letters

Name: Poems of Exile Tristia and the Black Sea Letters
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ISBN: 9780520242609

ISBN-10: 0520242602

ISBN-13: 9780520242609

Edition: 2005

Authors: C. Ovid, Peter Green, Peter Green, Peter Green

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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 written, a testament for exiles everywhere, in all ages. The two books of thePoems of Exile,theLamentations (Tristia)and theBlack…

Book details

List price: $34.95
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 1/18/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 535
Size: 5.25" wide x 8.00" long x 1.50" tall
Weight: 1.342
Language: English



Foreword to the 2005 Edition


Preface and Acknowledgments


Map


Introduction Textual Variants


Abbreviations


Select Bibliography


Tristia Black Sea Letters


Notes and References


Glossary


Index