The Poems of Exile: Tristia and the Black Sea Letters - Paperback
by Ovid
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Availability:In StockContributor:Ovid, Peter Green (Translator), Peter Green (Introduction by)Publish date:1/18/2005Pages:546
Language:EnglishPublisher:University of California PressISBN-13:9780520242609ISBN-10:520242602UPC:9780520242609Book Category:PoetryBook Subcategory:Ancient & ClassicalSize:7.68 x 5.20 x 1.28 inchesWeight:1.142Product ID:SCK0JFCGCP
The Poems of Exile: Tristia and the Black Sea Letters
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...
Language:EnglishPublisher:University of California PressISBN-13:9780520242609ISBN-10:520242602UPC:9780520242609Book Category:PoetryBook Subcategory:Ancient & ClassicalSize:7.68 x 5.20 x 1.28 inchesWeight:1.142Product ID:SCK0JFCGCP
Peter Green is Dougherty Centennial Professor Emeritus of Classics at the University of Texas at Austin and Adjunct Professor of Classics at the University of Iowa.He is the author of many books, including Alexander of Macedon, 356-323 B.C.: A Historical Biography (California, 1991) and Alexander to Actium: The Historical Evolution of the Hellenistic Age (California, 1990).His translations...
Publisher: University of California Press
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Ovid, Peter Green (Translator), Peter Green (Introduction by)
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