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Banished Voices: Readings in Ovid's Exile Poetry

Banished Voices: Readings in Ovid's Exile Poetry

Williams, Gareth D.

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Series: Cambridge Classical Studies

General ReferenceFiction AnthologiesGeneral Poetry

ISBN10: 052103681X
ISBN13: 9780521036818
Publisher: Cambridge
Published: Jun 21 2007
Pages: 248
Weight: 0.70
Height: 0.56 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
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.

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