Banished Voices: Readings in Ovid's Exile PoetryCambridge University Press, 20. 10. 1994 - 234 strán (strany) This study examines the literary complexities of the poetry which Ovid wrote in Tomis, his place of exile on the coast of the Black Sea after he was banished from Rome by the emperor Augustus in A.D. 8 because of the alleged salaciousness of the Ars Amatoria and a mysterious misdemeanour which is nowhere explained. Exile transforms Ovid into a melancholic poet of despair who claims that his creative faculties are in terminal decline. But recent research has exposed the ironic disjunction between many of the poet's claims and the latent artistry which belies them. Through a series of close readings which offer a new analytical contribution to the scholarly evaluation of the exile poetry, Dr Williams examines the nature and the extent of Ovidian irony in Tomis and demonstrates the complex literary designs which are consistently disguised under a veil of dissimulation. Gareth Williams aims to counteract traditional scholarly antipathy to the exile poetry, which could be said to represent the last frontier in modern Ovidian studies. Scholars working in the field will welcome his insights. |
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Ovids pose of poetic decline | 51 |
Consolidating a line of enquiry | 60 |
Ovids unpolished Muse | 79 |
Ovid as a Getic poet | 91 |
Friendship and the theme of artistic motivation | 100 |
Establishing an approach | 158 |
Ovids mischievous Muse | 168 |
Augustus otium and the Ovidian recusatio | 179 |
Ovid on literature | 193 |
The presence of the Ars Amatoria in Tristia 2 | 201 |
Conclusion | 210 |
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addressee adunata Aegisos Aeneas Aeneid allusion Amatoria ambivalence appeal artistic Augustan Augustus Callimachean Callimachus Carus Catullus celebrated context contrast Cotys course creative diction dissimulation echo effect elegiac elegist elegy emperor epic Epistulae ex Ponto Erichthonius erotic Eumolpus evidence example exile poetry fact familiar fides friends friendship Getae Getic Getic poem Gigantomachy Heroides Hinds Homeric Horace Horace's Horatian imperial implication ingenium ironic irony Latin lines literary lusus ment Metamorphoses mihi Moesia motif Muse Nagle Odysseus OLD s.v. opus otium Ovid claims Ovid's Ovid's depiction Ovid's exile Ovid's portrayal Ovidian Pannonia parallel Parthia picture poem's poet poet's poeta poetic decline Pontic region portrays pose of poetic programmatic Propertius reader reading recusatio reference Rhoemetalces Roman Rome Scythia sense Severus subtle suggests Syme syncrisis theme Thracian Tiberius Tibullus tion Tomis Tomitan tone tradition Tristia Ulysses utilitas verse Vestalis vires Virgil Virgilian vitium writing