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The Poems of Exile : Tristia and the Black Sea Letters
The Poems of Exile Tristia and the Black Sea Letters
Author: Ovid
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 ...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780520242609
ISBN-10: 0520242602
Publication Date: 1/18/2005
Pages: 528
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Publisher: University of California Press
Book Type: Paperback
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