Ovid: Ibis

by Robinson Ellis

Ovid's rarely studied Ibis is an elegiac companion-piece to the Tristia and Ex Ponto written after his banishment to the Black Sea in AD 8. Modelled on a poem of the same name by the Hellenistic poet Callimachus, Ibis stands out as an artistically contrived explosion of vitriol against an unnamed enemy who is characterised in terms of the Egyptian bird with its unprepossessing habits. Based in a tradition of curse-ritual, it is the most difficult...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1904675204
• ISBN13: 9781904675204
• Release Date: October 2008
• Publisher: Liverpool University Press
• Length: 290 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.4" x 8.4"