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Two Thousand Years of Solitude Clpr C

Two Thousand Years of Solitude Clpr C

Hardcover

Series: Classical Presences

Ancient RomeFiction Anthologies

ISBN10: 0199603847
ISBN13: 9780199603848
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: Dec 17 2011
Pages: 384
Weight: 1.30
Height: 1.10 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
Banished by the emperor Augustus in AD 8 from Rome to the far-off shores of Romania, the poet Ovid stands at the head of the Western tradition of exiled authors. In his Tristia (Sad Things) and Epistulae ex Ponto (Letters from the Black Sea), Ovid records his unhappy experience of political, cultural, and linguistic displacement from his homeland.

Two Thousand Years of Solitude: Exile After Ovid is an interdisciplinary study of the impact of Ovid's banishment upon later Western literature, exploring responses to Ovid's portrait of his life in exile. For a huge variety of writers throughout the world in the two millennia after his exile, Ovid has performed the role of archetypal exile, allowing them to articulate a range of experiences of disgrace, dislocation, and alienation; and to explore exile from a number of perspectives, including both the personal and the fictional.

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