The Poems of Exile: Tristia and the Black Sea Letters

[Ovid] ↠ The Poems of Exile: Tristia and the Black Sea Letters ¹ Download Online eBook or Kindle ePUB. 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 emperors action has never come to light, and all of Ovids 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, witty, vivid, nostalgic, and oft

Author	:	Ovid
Rating	:	4.65 (581 Votes)
Asin	:	0520242602
Format Type	:	paperback
Number of Pages	:	535 Pages
Publish Date	:	2016-05-19
Language	:	English

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buddhawannabe said I vote for Peter Green's version to put next to the Latin original. I'm not sure why Penguin didn't publish Peter Green's (slightly) revised version of this translation of "The Poems of Exile," except that the first edition may not have sold very well. (I don't think Penguin currently offers a translation of these poems, in fact.) As another reviewer suggests, they are a bit dreary over the long haul. I. superb translation Jack Alan Robbins Ovid was arguably the most important (to us today) of the ancient Roman poets. These poems of depression and bitterness following his exile are perhaps down reading but still great poems well worth the effort. I suggest you don't read more than a few poems at a sitting.

For the language-lover the translation provides elegant, flowing English verse, for the classicst it conveys close approximation to the Latin meaning coupled with a sense of the movement and rhythmic variety of Ovid's language." . "This is no small achievement

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, witty, vivid, nostalgic, and often slyly malicious poems he wrote at Tomis remain as fresh as the day they were written, a testament for exiles everywhere, in all ages.The two books of the Poems of Exile, the Lamentations (Tristia) and the Black Sea Letters (Epistulae ex Ponto), chronicle Ovid's impressions of Tomis—its appalling winters, bleak terrain, and sporadic raids by barbarous nomads—as well as his aching memories and ongoing appeals to his friends and his patient wife to intercede on his behalf. A superb literary artist to the end, Ovid offers an authentic, unforgettable panorama of the death-in-life he endured at Tomis.. But his rh