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Item Details
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SORROWS OF AN EXILE (TRISTIA)
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| By: |
Ovid, A. D. Melville (Trans) |
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Hardback |
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£96.00 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0198147929 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780198147923 |
| Publisher: |
OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
10 September, 1992 |
| Pages: |
206 |
| Translated from: |
Latin |
| Description: |
The five books of the "Tristia" are Ovid's first response to the pain and isolation of exile. They constitute both a moving personal document and a testimony to the enduring values of the mind in the face of arbitrary authority. |
| Synopsis: |
In AD 8 Ovid's brilliant career was abruptly blasted when the Emperor Augustus banished him, for reasons never satisfactorily explained, to Tomis (Constanta) on the Black Sea. This is a new translation of the five books of Tristia (Sorrows) which express his reaction to this savage and, as he clearly regarded it, unjust sentence. 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. |
| Illustrations: |
2 maps |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Clarendon Press |
| Returns: |
Non-returnable |
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