OvidTristia1

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Text:S.G.Owen,OCT(195)
Translation:A.D.Melville,Ovid,SorrowsofanExile(Tristia)(Oxford,1992)
A.L.Wheeler(Loeb,1924)
Commentaries:
G. Luck, 2 vols. (Heidelberg 1967, 1977): on the whole of the Tristia in
German
S.PoschTristia1(Innsbruck1983)
J.AndrOvide:Tristes(Bud1968)
F.dellaCorteITristi,2vols.(Genoa1973)
Forageneralrecentoverviewofworkontheexilepoetryseethetwosurveysby
GarethWilliams:'Ovid'sexilepoetry',inCambridgeCompaniontoOvid23345;and
'Ovid'sexilicpoetry'inBrill'sCompaniontoOvid,33781.
Ramus26(1997)isanissuedevotedtotheexilepoetry.
BooksonOvid'sexilepoetry:
*H.B.EvansPublicacarmina:Ovid'sbooksfromexile(Lincoln,Nebraska,
andLondon1983):goesthroughthebooksofexilepoemsinchronologicalorder;ch.
2onTristia1.
*B.R.Nagle Thepoeticsofexile:programandpolemicintheTristiaand
EpistulaeexPontoofOvid(Brussels1980):thoughtfuldiscussionofvariousaspects
oftheexilepoetry.
*G. D. Williams Banished voices. Readings in Ovid's exile poetry
(Cambridge1994):sophisticatedtreatmentofthepoeticsoftheexilepoetry;includes
detaileddiscussionofTristia1.5.
R.SymeHistoryinOvid(Oxford1978):hasmoretosayonExPontowith
itsnamedaddressees.
J.C.ThibaultThemysteryofOvid'sexile(BerkeleyandLosAngeles1964):
reviewsthevarioustheories.
A.VideauDelibesLesTristesd'Ovideetl'elgieromaine:unepotiquedela
rupture(Paris1991):containsmuchofvalue.
H.H.FroeschOvidalsDichterdesExils(Bonn1976)
M.Drucker Der verbanntedichter undder KaiserGott.StudienzuOvids
sptenElegien (Heidelberg1977):arguesthatOvidconstructsacriticalpictureof
Augustusasanangrygod,ratherthandealingoutbaseflattery.
J.M. Claassen Displaced persons: the literature of exile from Cicero to
Boethius(Madison,Wisconsin1999):largescalestudyinwhichOvidrankslarge.
E. Doblhofer Exil und Emigration: zum Erlebnis der Heimatferne in der
rmischenLiteratur (Darmstadt1987):anessayontheconceptofexileinLatin
literature,withextensivediscussionoftheOvidianmaterial.
TheolderbooksonOvidtendtohaveoverlydismissivesectionsontheexilepoetry.

Articles:
J.M.Claassen'Errorandtheimperialhousehold:anangrygodandtheexiled
poet's fate', Act. Class. 30 (1987) 3147: discusses the question of whether the
treatmentoftheimperialfamilyissimpleflatteryorirony.
ead.,OvidsPoeticPontus,PaperofLeedsInternationalLatinSeminar6(1990),
6594
M.H.Davisson'Omnianaturaepraeposteralegibusibunt. ADYNATA in
Ovid'sexilepoems',CJ76(1980)1248
id.,'ThefunctionsofopeningsinOvid'sexileepistles',CB58(1981)1722
R. J. Dickinson 'The Tristia: poetry in exile', in J. W. Binns (ed.) Ovid
(London1973)15490:slight,butreasonableintroduction.
J.Diggle'NotesonOvid'sTristia,booksIII',CQ30(1980)40119
A.D.FittonBrown'TheunrealityofOvid'sTomitanexile',LCM10.2(1985)
1822:attemptstorevivethetheorythatOvidneverreallywenttotheBlackSea.
A.Grisart'LapubblicationdesMtamorphoses:unesourcedurcitd'Ovide
(Tristes 1.7.1140)', in Atti del convegno internazionale ovidiano, Sulmona 1958
(Rome1959)ii.12556:detaileddiscussionofthehistoricalandliterarybackground
toOvid'sstatementsabouttheMet.inTr.1.7.
*M.Helzle'Ovid'spoeticsofexile',ICS13.1(1988)7383
*S.E.Hinds'Bookingthereturntrip:OvidandTristia1',PCPhS31(1985)
1332
*id.,Firstamongwomen:Ovid,andthetraditionsofexemplarycatalogue,
inS.M.BraundandR.Mayer(eds)amor:roma.LoveandLatinliterature(Cambr.
Philol.Soc.suppl.22[1999])12342:largelyonTr.1.6.
*E.J.Kenney'ThepoetryofOvid'sexile',PCPhS191(1965)3749:includes
discussionofTristia1.6.
*E. Oliensis 'Return to sender: the rhetoric of nomina in Ovid's Tristia',
Ramus26(1997)17293
N.V.Vulikh'Ovid's Tristia and LettersfromPontus ashistoricalsource
material',VDI127(1974)6479
*G.D.Williams'RepresentationsofthebookrollinLatinpoetry:Tr.1.1.3
14andrelatedtexts',Mnemosyne45(1992)17889

ForsomethingdifferenttryC.Ransmayr'snovel Thelastworld (transl.J.Woods,

London1990),afantasyaboutCotta'sjourneytotheBlackSeainsearchofhisfriend
Ovid.