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Sorrows of an Exile
By Ovid
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Description
The title of the Tristia belies them: 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. Both directly and, as befitted the Roman Callimachus, allusively, Ovid repeatedly asserts, often with a wit and irony that borders on defiance, his conviction of the injustice of his sentence and of the pre-eminence of the eternal values of poetry over the ephemeral dictates of an earthly power. These elegies are informed throughout by Ovid's awareness of, and continuing pride in, his poetic identity and mission. In technical skill and inventiveness they rank with the Art of Love or the Fasti. This is poetry as accomplished as anything he wrote in happier days and which demands no less critical respect.
Product details
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
212
Release Date:
1992-10-22
Publication Date:
2002-02-14
Publisher:
OUP Oxford
Languages:
Original:
English
ISBN10:
0198147929
ISBN13:
9780198147923
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
Weight:
436 g
Height:
145 cm
Width:
222 cm
Thickness:
16 cm
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