Buch, Englisch, 144 Seiten, Format (B × H): 112 mm x 172 mm, Gewicht: 110 g
Reihe: Very Short Introductions
Buch, Englisch, 144 Seiten, Format (B × H): 112 mm x 172 mm, Gewicht: 110 g
Reihe: Very Short Introductions
ISBN: 978-0-19-883768-8
Verlag: Sydney University Press
to artists, writers, or the general reader: Ovid's voice remains a compellingly contemporary one, as modern as it seemed to his contemporaries in Augustan Rome. But Ovid was also a man of his time, his own story fatally entwined with that of the first emperor Augustus, and the poetry he wrote channels
in its own way the cultural and political upheavals of the contemporary city, its public life, sexual mores, religion, and urban landscape, while also exploiting the superbly rich store of poetic convention that Greek literature and his Roman predecessors had bequeathed to him.
This Very Short Introduction explains Ovid's background, social and literary, and introduces his poetry, on love, metamorphosis, Roman festivals, and his own exile, a restlessly innovative oeuvre driven by the irrepressible ingenium or wit for which he was famous. Llewelyn Morgan also explores Ovid's immense influence on later literature and art, spanning from Shakespeare to Bernini. Throughout, Ovid's poetry is revealed as enduringly scintillating, his personal story
compelling, and the issues his life and poetry raise of continuing relevance and interest.
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