Table of Contents

Preface; Introduction; 1. The 'unreality' of Ovid's exile poetry; 2. Ovid's pose of poetic decline; 3. Friendship and the theme of artistic motivation; 4. Ovid's treatment of Augustus in Tristia 2; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index of modern authors; Index of passages cited; Index of words and themes.

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Examines the literary complexities of the melancholic poetry which Ovid wrote while in exile in Tomis.

Reviews

'Well-written, lucidly argued and scholarly book.' Scholia