Univ of California Pr, Date: 2005. Paperback. New. 1st edition. 451 pages. 8.00x5.25x1.50 inches. 2005. Univ of California Pr ISBN 0520242602 9780520242609 [GB]

ISBN10: 0520242602, ISBN13: 9780520242609, [publisher: University of California Press 2005-01-18] Softcover
[Wallingford, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 2005]

ISBN10: 0520242602, ISBN13: 9780520242609, [publisher: University Of California Press Jan 2005] Softcover Neuware - '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
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ISBN10: 0520242602, ISBN13: 9780520242609, [publisher: University of California Press, Berkerley] Softcover First Edition Paperback. 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, ...
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ISBN10: 0520242602, ISBN13: 9780520242609, [publisher: University of California Press] Softcover
[Columbia, MD, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 2005]
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ISBN10: 0520242602, ISBN13: 9780520242609, [publisher: University of California Press] Softcover New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.
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