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Record Nr.

UNINA9910813430103321

Autore

McGowan Matthew M

Titolo

Ovid in exile : power and poetic redress in the Tristia and Epistulae ex Ponto / / by Matthew M. McGowan

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Leiden ; ; Boston, : Brill, 2009

ISBN

1-282-40003-7

9786612400032

90-474-2407-7

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (272 p.)

Collana

Mnemosyne. Supplements, , 0169-8958 ; ; v. 309. Monographs on Greek and Roman language and literature

Disciplina

871/.01

Soggetti

Exiles - Rome

Exile (Punishment) in literature

Exiles in literature

Poets, Latin

Constanta (Romania) In literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [217]-231) and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Preliminary material / M. Mcgowan -- Introduction - The redress of exile / M. Mcgowan -- Chapter One. Historical reality and poetic representation / M. Mcgowan -- Chapter Two. Crimes and punishments: The legitimacy of Ovid’s banishment / M. Mcgowan -- Chapter Three. God and man: Caesar Augustus in Ovid’s exilic mythology / M. Mcgowan -- Chapter Four. Religious ritual and poetic devotion: Ovid’s representation of religion in Tr. and Pont. / M. Mcgowan -- Chapter Five. Space, justice, and the legal limits of empire: A comparative analysis of Fas, Ius, Lex, and Vates in Tr. and Pont. / M. Mcgowan -- Chapter Six. Ovidius Naso, poeta et exul: Ovid’s identification with Homer and Ulysses in Tr. and Pont. / M. Mcgowan -- Conclusion - The exile’s last word: Power and poetic redress on the margins of empire / M. Mcgowan -- Bibliography / M. Mcgowan -- Index locorum / M. Mcgowan -- Index verborum* / M. Mcgowan -- Index rerum / M. Mcgowan -- Supplements to Mnemosyne / M. Mcgowan.



Sommario/riassunto

In response to being exiled to the Black Sea by the Roman emperor Augustus in 8 AD, Ovid began to compose the Tristia and Epistulae ex Ponto and to create for himself a place of intellectual refuge. From there he was able to reflect out loud on how and why his own art had been legally banned and left for dead on the margins of the empire. As the last of the Augustan poets, Ovid was in a unique position to take stock of his own standing and of the place of poetry itself in a culture deeply restructured during the lengthy rule of Rome's first emperor. This study considers exile in the Tristia and Epistulae ex Ponto as a place of genuine suffering and a metaphor for poetry's marginalization from the imperial city. It analyzes, in particular, Ovid's representation of himself and the emperor Augustus against the background of Roman religion, law, and poetry.