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Transformations of Ovid in Late Antiquity (Hardcover)
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Transformations of Ovid in Late Antiquity (Hardcover)
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Ovid could be considered the original poet of late antiquity. In
his exile poetry, he depicts a world in which Rome has become a
distant memory, a community accessible only through his
imagination. This, Ovid claimed, was a transformation as remarkable
as any he had recounted in his Metamorphoses. Ian Fielding's book
shows how late antique Latin poets referred to Ovid's experiences
of isolation and estrangement as they reflected on the profound
social and cultural transformations taking place in the fourth,
fifth and sixth centuries AD. There are detailed new readings of
texts by major figures such as Ausonius, Paulinus of Nola, Boethius
and Venantius Fortunatus. For these authors, Fielding emphasizes,
Ovid was not simply a stylistic model, but an important
intellectual presence. Ovid's fortunes in late antiquity reveal
that poetry, far from declining into irrelevance, remained a
powerful mode of expression in this fascinating period.
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