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Sorrows of an Exile: Tristia
Sorrows of an Exile Tristia
Author: Ovid
In AD 8 Ovid's brilliant career was abruptly ruined when the Emperor Augustus banished him, for reasons never satisfactorily explained, to Tomis (Constanta) on the Black Sea. The five books of Tristia (Sorrows) express his reaction to this savage and, as he clearly regarded it, unjust sentence. Though their ostensible theme is the misery and lon...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780198147923
ISBN-10: 0198147929
Publication Date: 9/11/1992
Pages: 212
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Publisher: Oxford University Press
Book Type: Hardcover
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