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Ovid: Ibis (Paperback, New)
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Ovid: Ibis (Paperback, New)
Series: Bristol Phoenix Press Classic Editions
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Ovid's rarely studied Ibis is an elegiac companion-piece to the
Tristia and Ex Ponto written after his banishment to the Black Sea
in AD 8. Modelled on a poem of the same name by the Hellenistic
poet Callimachus, Ibis stands out as an artistically contrived
explosion of vitriol against an unnamed enemy who is characterised
in terms of the Egyptian bird with its unprepossessing habits.
Based in a tradition of curse-ritual, it is the most difficult of
Ovid's poems to penetrate. Robinson Ellis's edition remains an
indispensable - if typically eccentric - platform for the study of
the poem's obscurities. Indeed Ellis deserves the primary credit
for bringing Ibis back from obscurity into the light of day.This
reissue of Ellis's 1881 edition includes a new introduction by
Gareth Williams setting the edition in the context of earlier and
later developments in scholarship. Ellis's edition not only made a
significant contribution to research into the Ibis, it is an
important representative of a particular vein of scholarship
prevalent in nineteenth-century Latin study.
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