Author: Ovid
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 9780192824523
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 173
Book Description
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.
Sorrows of an Exile
Author: Ovid
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 9780192824523
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 173
Book Description
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.
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 9780192824523
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 173
Book Description
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.
Ovid
Author: Ovid
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : la
Pages : 100
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : la
Pages : 100
Book Description
A Commentary on Ovid, Tristia
Author: Jennifer Ingleheart
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780191819575
Category : Exile (Punishment) in literature
Languages : en
Pages : 448
Book Description
A detailed commentary on Tristia 2, Ovid's verse letter addressed from exile to the emperor Augustus. Jennifer Ingleheart provides an indispensable guide to all aspects of the poem - textual, literary, historical and political - while her introductioon explores, among other topics, its ironical and subversive aspects.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780191819575
Category : Exile (Punishment) in literature
Languages : en
Pages : 448
Book Description
A detailed commentary on Tristia 2, Ovid's verse letter addressed from exile to the emperor Augustus. Jennifer Ingleheart provides an indispensable guide to all aspects of the poem - textual, literary, historical and political - while her introductioon explores, among other topics, its ironical and subversive aspects.
Ovid
Author: Ovid
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : la
Pages : 188
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : la
Pages : 188
Book Description
The Poems of Exile
Author: Ovid
Publisher: 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
Publisher: 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
A Translation of the First Book of Ovid's Tristia
Author: Ovid
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Classic
Languages : en
Pages : 156
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Classic
Languages : en
Pages : 156
Book Description
Tristia
Author: Ovid
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
Ovid Tristia
Author: Publius Ovidius Naso
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
The Offense of Love
Author: Ovid
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Pres
ISBN: 0299302040
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 294
Book Description
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.
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Pres
ISBN: 0299302040
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 294
Book Description
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.
The Fasti, Tristia, Pontic Epistles, Ibis. And Halieuticon of Ovid
Author: Henry Riley
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3382157586
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 534
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1872. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost.
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3382157586
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 534
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1872. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost.