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Ovid in exile : power and poetic redress in the Tristia and Epistulae ex Ponto /

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 religio...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: McGowan, Matthew M. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2009.
Colección:Mnemosyne, bibliotheca classica Batava. Supplementum. Monographs on Greek and Roman language and literature.
Mnemosyne, bibliotheca classica Batava. Supplementum ; 309.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.