Sorrows of an Exile: Tristia Paperback - 1995
by Ovid; A. D. Melville (Translator); Introduction by E. J. Kenney
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In AD 8 Ovid's brilliant career was suddenly ruined when the Emperor Augustus banished him 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. Their title belies them. Although their ostensible theme is the misery and loneliness of exile, their real message is one of affirmation. With a wit and irony that borders on defiance Ovid repeatedly asserts his conviction of the injustice of his sentence and of the pre-eminence of the eternal values of poetry over the ephemeral dictates of an earthly power.
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- Title Sorrows of an Exile: Tristia
- Author Ovid; A. D. Melville (Translator); Introduction by E. J. Kenney
- Binding Paperback
- Edition First Edition Th
- Pages 208
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Oxford University Press, USA, New York, NY
- Date 1995-04
- Features Bibliography, Index
- ISBN 9780192824523 / 019282452X
- Weight 0.25 lbs (0.11 kg)
- Dimensions 7.33 x 4.59 x 0.38 in (18.62 x 11.66 x 0.97 cm)
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- Chronological Period: Ancient (To 499 A.D.)
- Library of Congress subjects Epistolary poetry, Latin - Translations into, Poets, Latin - Homes and haunts - Romania -
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 94022806
- Dewey Decimal Code 871.01
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