Ovid and Augustus. A political reading of Ovid's erotic poems.

From the library of Prof. Wolfgang Haase, long-time editor of ANRW and the International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT). - Minimally rubbed jacket, allover very good and clean. / Minimal beriebener Umschlag, insgesamt sehr gut und sauber. - Contents: 1. Tristia 2: Defending Love Poetry -- 2. Conflicting Evaluations of Augustus -- 3. Augustan Ideology: Secular Festival and Augustan Forum -- 4. Heroides -- 5. Amores -- 6. Ars Amatoria -- 7. Remedia Amoris -- 8. Epilogue: Erotic Works in the Exile Poetry. - Ovid and Augustus deals with one of the most contentious issues in the study of Roman literature: the relationship between Augustan literary texts and Augustan politics. One of the central facts of Ovid�s life is that he was exiled to the shores of the Black Sea. The poet himself tells us that he was being punished because of a poem and a mistake. Although the mistake is unknowable, we do have the poem, Art of Love. Here Peter Davis reads all Ovid�s early works (the erotic poetry: Heroides, Amores, Ars Amatoria, Remedia Amoris) against their political context and argues that they challenge the Augustan regime�s political ideology and resist the Augustan conception of what it was to be Roman. - P. J. Davis is Associate Professor and Head, School of History and Classics, University of Tasmania. He has published on a variety of Latin authors, including Calpurnius Siculus, Horace, Ovid, Seneca, Statius and Virgil as well as on English, French and Italian Renaissance drama. ISBN 9780715635599