{"product_id":"the-mystery-of-ovids-exile-9780520302273","title":"The Mystery of Ovid's Exile","description":"\u003cdiv\u003eToward the end of the year A.D. 8, the emperor Augustus publicly sentenced the poet Ovid to exile in remote and barbaric Tomis on the Black Sea. The action presumably followed a secret hearing before the emperor, and the official reason given for the sentence was Ovid's authorship of a licentious work, the \u003ci\u003eArs amatoria,\u003c\/i\u003e ten years earlier. \u003ci\u003eThe Mystery of Ovid's Exile\u003c\/i\u003e is both a survey and an analysis of the literary detective work that has been devoted to explaining the cause of Ovid's banishment from Rome.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e In poems composed during his exile, Ovid laments having written the \u003ci\u003eArs amatoria,\u003c\/i\u003e but he obviously considers the poem to be merely a pretext for his punishment. His downfall appears to have been caused by his having witnessed, or in some fashion been implicated in, a crime committed either by the emperor himself or by an immediate member of the imperial family. However, it’s possible that Ovid's banishment may have been ordered merely because he was unwittingly in possession of the key to an embarrassing secret, the importance of which he might have realized had he remained in Rome.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e John C. Thibault examines more than one hundred available hypotheses that have been advanced by inquisitive scholars from the Middle Ages to our own day. He demonstrates the unsoundness of each hypothesis in turn, and suggests that a solution to the problem of Ovid's exile is not possible given the available evidence. \u003ci\u003eThe Mystery of Ovid's Exil\u003c\/i\u003e treats a controversy that will fascinate classical scholars as well as general readers interested in Roman manners and morals of the period.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1964.\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"John C. Thibault","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42964037107830,"sku":"9780520302273","price":39.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0671\/1374\/6550\/files\/CoreSourceHub_edf24972-4f39-4020-8193-cf0fee999e22.jpg?v=1767875933","url":"https:\/\/ingramacademic.com\/products\/the-mystery-of-ovids-exile-9780520302273","provider":"Ingram Academic \u0026 Professional","version":"1.0","type":"link"}