Author: OvidPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
Elegiac Poems of Ovid: Letters from exile, selected from the Tristia and the Epistulae ex ponto
Author: OvidElegiac Poems of Ovid: The earlier poems, selected from the Heroides, the Amores, the Ars amatoria and the Remedia amoris
Author: OvidThe Poems of Exile
Author: OvidPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520242609
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 540
Book Description
"This is no small achievement. For the language-lover the translation provides elegant, flowing English verse, for the classicist it conveys close approximation to the Latin meaning coupled with a sense of the movement and rhythmic variety of Ovid's language"—Geraldine Herbert-Brown, editor of Ovid's Fasti: Historical Readings at its Bimillennium "This book fills a gap. There is no similar annotated English translation of Ovid's exile poetry. Thoroughly grounded in Ovidian scholarship, Green's introduction and notes are helpful and informative. The translation is accurate, idiomatic, and lively, closely imitating the Latin elegiac couplet and capturing Ovid's changing moods."—Karl Galinsky, author of Ovid's Metamorphoses: An Introduction to the Basic Aspects
The Poems of Exile
Author: OvidPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520931378
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 537
Book Description
In the year A.D. 8, Emperor Augustus sentenced the elegant, brilliant, and sophisticated Roman poet Ovid to exile—permanently, as it turned out—at Tomis, modern Constantza, on the Romanian coast of the Black Sea. The real reason for the emperor's action has never come to light, and all of Ovid's subsequent efforts to secure either a reprieve or, at the very least, a transfer to a less dangerous place of exile failed. Two millennia later, the agonized, witty, vivid, nostalgic, and often slyly malicious poems he wrote at Tomis remain as fresh as the day they were written, a testament for exiles everywhere, in all ages. The two books of the Poems of Exile, the Lamentations (Tristia) and the Black Sea Letters (Epistulae ex Ponto), chronicle Ovid's impressions of Tomis—its appalling winters, bleak terrain, and sporadic raids by barbarous nomads—as well as his aching memories and ongoing appeals to his friends and his patient wife to intercede on his behalf. While pretending to have lost his old literary skills and even to be forgetting his Latin, in the Poems of Exile Ovid in fact displays all his virtuoso poetic talent, now concentrated on one objective: ending the exile. But his rhetorical message falls on obdurately deaf ears, and his appeals slowly lose hope. A superb literary artist to the end, Ovid offers an authentic, unforgettable panorama of the death-in-life he endured at Tomis.
Ovid: Epistulae ex Ponto Book I
Author: Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 052181958X
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 203
Book Description
Ovid
Author: OvidBulletin ...
Author: Bulletin ...
Author: University of St. Andrews. LibraryPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 646
Book Description
Ovid
Author: Niklas HolzbergPublisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 9780801437540
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
Provides an overview of the life of Roman poet Ovid and offers an in depth analysis of his varied works.
Ovid Heroides: A Selection
Author: John GodwinPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 147426591X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 69
Book Description
This is the OCR-endorsed publication from Bloomsbury for the Latin A-Level (Group 4) prescription of Ovid's Heroides, giving full Latin text, commentary and vocabulary for Heroides VI, lines 1–100 and 127–64, and X, lines 1–76 and 119–50. A detailed introduction covers the prescribed text to be read in English, placing the poems in their Roman literary context. The heroines of the Heroides are women in love who can do nothing but write sad verse letters to their faithless lovers across the sea. They tell their stories and express their feelings in poetry of great power and psychological subtlety. Hypsipyle (in VI) and Ariadne (in X) are feminists before feminism, royal ladies who are slaves to their passion – these women are given a voice by Ovid in poetry which is at once simple and sophisticated, heartfelt and yet also full of irony and literary resonance.