Sorrows of an Exile: Tristia by Ovid

Sorrows of an Exile: Tristia

In AD 8 Ovid's brilliant career was abruptly ruined when the Emperor Augustus banished him, for reasons...
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Author: Ovid
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Language: English
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Sorrows of an Exile: Tristia by Ovid

Sorrows of an Exile: Tristia

$24.80

Sorrows of an Exile: Tristia

$24.80
Author: Ovid
Format: Paperback
Language: English
In AD 8 Ovid's brilliant career was abruptly ruined when the Emperor Augustus banished him, for reasons never satisfactorily explained, to Tomis (Constanta) on the Black Sea. The five books of Tristia (Sorrows) express his reaction to this savage and, as he clearly regarded it, unjust
sentence. Though their ostensible theme is the misery and loneliness of exile, their real message, if they are read with the care they deserve, is one of affirmation. With a wit and irony that borders on defiance, Ovid repeatedly asserts the injustice of his sentence and of the preeminence of the
eternal values of poetry over the ephemeral dictates of an earthly power. In technical skill and inventiveness these elegies rank with the Art of Love or the Fasti. For this new translation Alan Melville has reproduced, in rhyming stanzas, the virtuosity, wit, and elegance of the original.

Author: Ovid
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 04/27/1995
Pages: 208
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.25lbs
Size: 7.33h x 4.59w x 0.38d
ISBN: 9780192824523

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