Author: Ovid
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 9780192824523
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 173
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In AD 8 Ovid's brilliant career was abruptly ruined when the Emperor Augustus banished him, for reasons never satisfactorily explained, to Tomis (Constanta) on the Black Sea. The five books of Tristia (Sorrows) express his reaction to this savage and, as he clearly regarded it, unjust sentence. 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. With a wit and irony that borders on defiance, Ovid repeatedly asserts the injustice of his sentence and of the preeminence of the eternal values of poetry over the ephemeral dictates of an earthly power. In technical skill and inventiveness these elegies rank with the Art of Love or the Fasti. For this new translation Alan Melville has reproduced, in rhyming stanzas, the virtuosity, wit, and elegance of the original.
Author: Ovid
Publisher:
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Languages : la
Pages : 188
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Author: Ovid
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : la
Pages : 100
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Author: Jennifer Ingleheart
Publisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 0199590427
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 462
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A major work of Latin literature, Tristia 2 is a verse letter addressed by the exiled poet Ovid to the man who banished him from Rome, the emperor Augustus. Ovid apologizes to Augustus for the misdemeanours that led to his banishment, but, more importantly, defends both his life and his poetry in light of the accusation that his earlier Ars amatoria (The Art of Love) had promoted adultery. Jennifer Ingleheart's commentary, the most up-to-date and comprehensive oneavailable, is an invaluable guide to all aspects of the poem - textual, literary, historical, and political - while her Introduction explores, among other topics, its ironical and subversive aspects.
Author: Ovid
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520242609
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 540
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"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
Author: Publius Ovidius Naso
Publisher:
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 64
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Author: Bartolo Natoli
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Pres
ISBN: 0299312100
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 245
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Examines speech loss across all of Ovid's writings and the ways that motif is explored, developed, and modified in the poet's work after his exile from Rome.
Author: Ovid
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Pres
ISBN: 0299302040
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 294
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This work brings together a selection of the author's articles, written over a period of 20 years, observing the place of alcohol in American culture. The text also contains several ethnographic studies of bars in San Diego and a study of court-mandated programmes for drink drivers.
Author: Ovid
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Languages : en
Pages : 572
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Author: Martin Boetz
Publisher: Hardie Grant
ISBN: 9781742708201
Category : Cooking
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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New Thai Food celebrates the delicious and unique flavors of Thai food - and always with a keen eye on the balance of the essential taste senses of sour, sweet, salty and bitter. Recipes cover starters, salads, soups, curries, seafood, meat and poultry and desserts - as well as a handy section on the basics of this cuisine. Although not everything might be found in a domestic fridge or cupboard, the ingredients and techniques are not complicated - they're pitched to an adventurous cook keen to explore the vibrant tastes of Thailand. Get started with some good fish sauce, chillies and sugar - and you're almost done. Starters include betel leaves with smoked trout, galangal & trout roe, as well as fish cakes, while salads include beef salad with apple eggplant and the classic green papaya salad but with the addition of coconut rice. The curry chapter includes the familiar - red duck curry - and more adventurous options, including spiced curry of spatchcock with chilli. Seafood, meat and poultry dishes are all flavorsome and straightforward to prepare. The desserts play on the familiar tastes of Thailand - durian, palm sugar, tapioca and mango - for a deliciously sweet ending.
