Research Catalog

Details

Additional authors

1. Green, Peter, 1924-

Description

1. lxxxiv, 451 p. : map; 20 cm.

Summary

1. "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 Constanta, on the Romanian coast of the Black Sea. Two millennia later, the agonized, witty, vivid, nostalgic, and often slyly malicious poems Ovid wrote at Tomis remain as fresh as the day they were written, a testament for exiles everywhere and in all ages." "Peter Green's informative introduction describes Ovid's literary and personal circumstances against the backdrop of Roman culture and the politics of the day. His translation, explanatory notes, and glossary will bring these poems to a wide audience of students and general readers."--Jacket.

Uniform title

1. Works. Selections. English. 1994

Alternative title

1. Works. 1994
2. Ovid, the poems of exile

Subject

1. Ovid, 43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D. -- Translations into English
2. Poets, Latin -- Homes and haunts -- Romania -- Constanța
3. Epistolary poetry, Latin -- Translations into English
4. Complaint poetry, Latin -- Translations into English
5. Poets, Latin -- Correspondence
6. Romans -- Romania -- Poetry
7. Exiles -- Poetry
8. Constanța (Romania) -- Poetry

Genre/Form

1. Poetry
2. Personal correspondence
3. Translations

Contents

1. Machine derived contents note: Foreword to the 2005 Edition -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- Map -- Introduction -- Textual Variants -- Abbreviations -- Select Bibliography -- Tristia -- Black Sea Letters -- Notes and References -- Glossary -- Index.

Owning institution

1. Harvard Library

Language

1. English

Note

1. Originally published: London ; New York : Penguin, 1994.

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references (p. lxxvii-lxxxiv) and index.

Processing action (note)

1. committed to retain