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The poems of exile: Tristia and the Black Sea letters

✍ Scribed by Ovid; Green, Peter ; Green, Peter

Publisher: University of California Press;Recording for the Blind & Dyslexic
Year: 2014;2005
Tongue: English
Weight: 482 KB
Category: Fiction
ISBN: 0520931378

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✦ Synopsis

Tristia -- Black Sea letters -- Glossary.;In the year A.D. 8, Emperor Augustus sentenced the ... 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 ... poems Ovid wrote at Tomis remain as ... a testament for exiles everywhere and in all ages. [The author's] informative introduction describes Ovid's literary and personal circumstances against the backdrop of Roman culture and the politics of the day. [He] brings these poems to a wide audience of students and general readers.-Back cover.

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