Ovid in exile : : power and poetic redress in the Tristia and Epistulae ex Ponto / / by Matthew M. McGowan.

• Superior document: Mnemosyne. Supplements, v. 309. Monographs on Greek and Roman language and literature
• Author: McGowan, Matthew M.
• Year of Publication: 2009
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Mnemosyne, bibliotheca classica Batava. Supplementum. Monographs on Greek and Roman language and literature.; Mnemosyne, bibliotheca classica Batava. Supplementum ; 309.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (272 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

In response to being exiled to the Black Sea by the Roman emperor Augustus in 8 AD, Ovid began to compose the Tristia and Epistulae ex Ponto and to create for himself a place of intellectual refuge. From there he was able to reflect out loud on how and why his own art had been legally banned and left for dead on the margins of the empire. As the last of the Augustan poets, Ovid was in a unique position to take stock of his own standing and of the place of poetry itself in a culture deeply restructured during the lengthy rule of Rome's first emperor. This study considers exile in the Tristia and Epistulae ex Ponto as a place of genuine suffering and a metaphor for poetry's marginalization from the imperial city. It analyzes, in particular, Ovid's representation of himself and the emperor Augustus against the background of Roman religion, law, and poetry.

Table of Contents

Preliminary material / M. Mcgowan -- Introduction - The redress of exile / M. Mcgowan -- Chapter One. Historical reality and poetic representation / M. Mcgowan -- Chapter Two. Crimes and punishments: The legitimacy of Ovid’s banishment / M. Mcgowan -- Chapter Three. God and man: Caesar Augustus in Ovid’s exilic mythology / M. Mcgowan -- Chapter Four. Religious ritual and poetic devotion: Ovid’s representation of religion in Tr. and Pont. / M. Mcgowan -- Chapter Five. Space, justice, and the legal limits of empire: A comparative analysis of Fas, Ius, Lex, and Vates in Tr. and Pont. / M. Mcgowan -- Chapter Six. Ovidius Naso, poeta et exul: Ovid’s identification with Homer and Ulysses in Tr. and Pont. / M. Mcgowan -- Conclusion - The exile’s last word: Power and poetic redress on the margins of empire / M. Mcgowan -- Bibliography / M. Mcgowan -- Index locorum / M. Mcgowan -- Index verborum* / M. Mcgowan -- Index rerum / M. Mcgowan -- Supplements to Mnemosyne / M. Mcgowan.