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Banished Voices: Readings in Ovid's Exile Poetry (Cambridge Classical Studies) by Gareth D. Williams is a history book available to read on EtoBox.
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This study examines the literary complexities of the poetry which Ovid wrote in Tomis, his place of exile on the coast of the Black Sea after he was banished from Rome by the emperor Augustus in A.D. 8 because of the alleged salaciousness of the Ars Amatoria and a mysterious misdemeanour which is nowhere explained. Exile transforms Ovid into a melancholic poet of despair who claims that his creative faculties are in terminal decline. But recent research has exposed the ironic disjunction between
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- Author
- Gareth D. Williams
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press (Virtual Publishing)
- Published
- 1994
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780521451369
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- Literary Fiction, History, Language Learning
- Updated
- 2026-03-24
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