Two Thousand Years of Solitude: Exile After Ovid(Classical Presences)

Banished by the emperor Augustus in AD 8 from Rome to the far-off shores of Romania, the poet Ovid stands at the head of the Western tradition of exiled authors. In his Tristia (Sad Things) and Epistulae ex Ponto (Letters from the Black Sea), Ovid records his unhappy experience of political, cultural, and linguistic displacement from his homeland. Two Thousand Years of Solitude: Exile After Ovid is an interdisciplinary study of the impact of Ovid's banishment upon later Western literature, exploring responses to Ovid's portrait of his life in exile. For a huge variety of writers throughout the world in the two millennia after his exile, Ovid has performed the rôle of archetypal exile, allowing them to articulate a range of experiences of disgrace, dislocation, and alienation; and to explore exile from a number of perspectives, including both the personal and the fictional.

Table of Contents:
LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS Introduction: Two Thousand Years of Responses to Ovid's Exile Jennifer Ingleheart: I. OVIDIAN EXILE AND THE POETS Efrem Zambon: Life and Poetry: Differences and Resemblances between Ovid and Dante L. B. T. Houghton: Exiled Rome and august Pope: Petrarch s Letters to Benedict XII Stephen Hinds: Black-Sea Latin, Du Bellay, and the barbarian turn: Tristia, Regrets, Translations Mandy Green: Lætus & exilii conditione fruor: Milton s Ovidian Exile Liz Oakley-Brown: Elizabethan Exile After Ovid: Thomas Churchyard s Tristia (1572) Jennifer Ingleheart: 'I shall be thy devoted foe': the exile of the Ovid of the Ibis in English reception Philip Hardie: Ovid and Virgil at the North Pole: Marvell s A Letter to Dr Ingelo The Chevalier de Boufflers in Senegal: An Eighteenth Century Ovida Fiona Cox: Ovid on the Channel Islands: The Exile of Victor Hugo Duncan F. Kennedy: In the Step(pe)s of Genius: Pushkin s Ovidian Exile Stephen Harrison: Ovid and The Modern Poetics of Exile Jennifer J. Dellner: Children of the Island: Ovid, Poesis, and Loss in the Poetry of Eavan Boland and Derek Mahon II. OVIDIAN EXILE IN MODERN PROSE Helen Lovatt: The mystery of Ovid s exile: Ovid and the Roman detectives Jane Alison, The Love-Artist: Love in Exile or Exile in Lovea Andreas N. Michalopoulos: Ovid s Last Wor(l)d Ioannis Ziogas: The Myth is Out There: Reality and Fiction at Tomis (David Malouf s An Imaginary Life) Sebastian Matzner: Tomis Writes Back: Politics of Peripheral Identity in David Malouf s and Vintila Horia s Re-Narrations of Ovidian Exile BIBLIOGRAPHY GENERAL INDEX INDEX LOCORUM

About the Author :
Jennifer Ingleheart was educated at Wadham College, Oxford, where she gained her BA, MSt., and DPhil. in Classics. After temporary teaching positions at Marlboro College, Vermont, The University of Wales, Swansea, and Keble and Wadham Colleges in Oxford, she took up a lectureship in Durham in 2004. She is the author of numerous articles on Latin poetry and its reception, and A Commentary on Ovid, Tristia, Book 2 (OUP, 2010).

Review :
beautifully edited by Ingleheart, whose presence is evident throughout in the frequent acknowledgments of her contributions to individual papers. Indeed, unlike many conference proceedings, the papers are characterized by fruitful cross-references between participants. [a] fascinating volume ... The Ovidian exile(s) that emerge(s) from these pages are as many and as varied as the sum of the authors discussed and the scholars discussing them, serving to enrich the target readers own conception of the first, multi-faceted, star-crossed poet of exile.