Title: Ovid in exile : power and poetic redress in the Tristia and Epistulae ex Ponto /
Authors: McGowan, Matthew M.
Publisher: Brill,
Year: 2009
Subjects: Ovid, Exile.; Ovid,; Ovid,; Ovid, Homes and haunts Romania Constanța.; Ovid,; Ovid,; Ovid, Exile.; Ovid, Homes and haunts Constanța.; Ovid, Homes and haunts Romania Constanța.; Exiles Rome Biography.; Exile (Punishment) in literature.; Exiles in literature.; Poets, Latin Biography.; Constanța (Romania) In literature.; Constanța (Romania) In literature.
Contents: Acknowledgments -- Introduction. The redress of exile -- 1. Historical reality and poetic representation -- -- Myth and history -- 2. Crimes and punishments -- -- The law and Ovid -- -- The crimen in carmen -- -- Summary -- 3. God and man -- -- Princeps Divus -- -- Augustus deus praesens -- 4. Religious ritual and poetic devotion -- -- Reading religion -- -- The cult of the Caesars -- -- The theologia tripertita in Varro -- -- di quoque carminibus si fas est dicere fiunt -- -- Preliminary conclusion -- 5. Space, justice, and the legal limits of empire -- -- lus, lex, and the limits of Rome -- -- Vates et exul -- -- Germanicus : vates et princeps -- -- Summary -- 6. Ovidius, Naso, poeta et exul -- -- Ovid and Homer -- -- Ovid, Homer, and the ira principis -- -- Ars, ingenium, and the representation of lived experience -- Conclusion. The exile's last word -- Bibliography -- -- Reference works -- -- Abbreviations in bibliography -- -- Authors -- Index locorum -- Index Verborum -- Index rerum.