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Two Thousand Years of Solitude: Exile After Ovid

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Two Thousand Years of Solitude: Exile After Ovid - Ingleheart, Jennifer (Editor)
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Banished by the emperor Augustus in AD 8 from Rome to the far-off shores of Romania, the poet Ovid stands at the head of the Western tradition of exiled authors. In his Tristia (Sad Things) and Epistulae ex Ponto (Letters from the Black Sea), Ovid records his unhappy experience of political, cultural, and linguistic displacement from his homeland. Two Thousand Years of Solitude: Exile After Ovid is an interdisciplinary study of the impact of Ovid's banishment upon later Western literature, exploring responses to Ovid's ...

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Two Thousand Years of Solitude: Exile After Ovid 2011, Oxford University Press, Oxford

ISBN-13: 9780199603848

Hardcover