The Poems of Exile: Tristia and the Black Sea Letters

by Ovid and Ovid Sidney George Owen

Book Overview

In the year A.D. 8, Emperor Augustus sentenced the elegant, brilliant, and sophisticated Roman poet Ovid to exile--permanently, as it turned out--at Tomis, modern Constantza, on the Romanian coast of the Black Sea. The real reason for the emperor's action has never come to light, and all of Ovid's subsequent efforts to secure either a reprieve or, at the very least, a transfer to a less dangerous place of exile failed. Two millennia later, the agonized,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520242602
• ISBN13: 9780520242609
• Release Date: January 2005
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 546 Pages
• Weight: 0.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 5.2" x 7.7"

Customer Reviews

For exiles everywhere in anytime

Of maximum comfort to anyone forced to live away from home; exquisite rendition of homesickness, will give solace to fellow exiles. Essential read for those who live with foreigners.