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| #602461 in Books | imusti | 2005-01-18 | 2005-01-18 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 7.56 x1.34 x5.04l,1.14 | File type: PDF | 535 pages | University of California Press||2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.| I vote for Peter Green's version to put next to the Latin original|By buddhawannabe|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, t||"This is no small achievement. 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."
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, wi...
You can specify the type of files you want, for your device.The Poems of Exile: Tristia and the Black Sea Letters | Ovid. I have read it a couple of times and even shared with my family members. Really good. Couldnt put it down.
