Two Thousand Years of Solitude: Exile After Ovid

Jennifer Ingleheart (Curatore)

Oxford University Press, 2011

Banished by the emperor Augustus in AD 8 from Rome to the far-off shores of Romania, the poet Ovid stands at the head of the Western tradition of exiled authors. In his Tristia (Sad Things) and Epistulae ex Ponto (Letters from the Black Sea), Ovid records his unhappy experience of political, cultural, and linguistic displacement from his homeland. Two Thousand Years of Solitude: Exile After Ovid is an interdisciplinary study of the impact of Ovid's banishment upon later Western literature, exploring responses to Ovid's portrait of his life in exile. For a huge variety of writers throughout the world in the two millennia after his exile, Ovid has performed the rôle of archetypal exile, allowing them to articulate a range of experiences of disgrace, dislocation, and alienation; and to explore exile from a number of perspectives, including both the personal and the fictional.

• Curatore: Jennifer Ingleheart
• Editore: Oxford University Press
• Collana: Classical Presences
• Anno: 2011
• Rilegatura: Hardback
• Pagine: 384 p.
• Dimensioni: 224 x 145 mm
• Peso: 598 gr.
• EAN: 9780199603848

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