Two thousand years of solitude exile after Ovid

This is an interdisciplinary study of the impact of Ovid's banishment upon later Western literature and explores the responses to Ovid's portrait of his life in exile. Two millennia after his banishment, Ovid is still a potent symbol of the punished author, suffering in exile

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Ingleheart, Jennifer
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford Oxford University Press 2011, 2011
Series:Classical presences / Classical presences
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Collection: Oxford University Press - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Description
Summary:This is an interdisciplinary study of the impact of Ovid's banishment upon later Western literature and explores the responses to Ovid's portrait of his life in exile. Two millennia after his banishment, Ovid is still a potent symbol of the punished author, suffering in exile
Physical Description:1 online resource
ISBN:9780191731587