Title The poems of exile : Tristia and the Black Sea letters / Ovid ; translated with an introduction, notes, and glossary by Peter Green ; with a new foreword

Published Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2005

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Description 1 online resource (lxxxiv, 451 pages) : map Contents Frontmatter -- Contents -- Foreword to the 2005 Edition -- Preface and Acknowledgements -- Map -- Introduction -- Textual Variants -- Abbreviations -- Select Bibliography -- Tristia -- Black Sea Letters -- Notes and References -- Glossary -- Index Summary 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 Notes Originally published: London ; New York : Penguin, 1994 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages lxxvii-lxxxiv) and index Subject Ovid, 43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D. -- Translations into English SUBJECT Ovid, 43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D. fast Subject Poets, Latin -- Homes and haunts -- Romania -- Constanța Epistolary poetry, Latin -- Translations into English Complaint poetry, Latin -- Translations into English Poets, Latin -- Correspondence Romans -- Romania -- Poetry Exiles -- Poetry POETRY -- Ancient, Classical & Medieval. LITERARY CRITICISM -- Ancient & Classical. Complaint poetry, Latin Epistolary poetry, Latin Exiles Poets, Latin Poets, Latin -- Homes and haunts Romans SUBJECT Constanța (Romania) -- Poetry Subject Romania Romania -- Constanța Genre/Form Poetry Personal correspondence Translations Form Electronic book Author Green, Peter, 1924- Ovid, 43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D. Tristia. English. Ovid, 43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D. Epistulae ex Ponto. English. ISBN 9780520931374 0520931378

Other Titles Works. Selections. English. 1994 Ovid, the poems of exile

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