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Overview"Ovid's Art of Love (Ars Amatoria) and its sequel Remedies for Love (Remedia Amoris) are among the most notorious poems of the ancient world. In AD 8, the emperor Augustus exiled Ovid to the shores of the Black Sea for """"a poem and a mistake."""" Whatever the mistake may have been, the poem was certainly the Ars Amatoria, which the emperor found a bit too immoral. In exile, Ovid composed Sad Things (Tristia), which included a defense of his life and work as brilliant and cheeky as his controversial love manuals. In a poem addressed to Augustus (Tristia 2), he argues, """"Since all of life and literature is one long, steamy sex story, why single poor Ovid out?"""" While seemingly groveling at the emperor's feet, he creates an image of Augustus as capricious tyrant and himself as suffering artist that wins over every reader (except the one to whom it was addressed). Bringing together translations of the Ars Amatoria, Remedia Amoris, and Tristia 2, Julia Dyson Hejduk's The Offense of Love is the first book to include both the offense and the defense of Ovid's amatory work in a single volume. Hejduk's elegant and accurate translations, helpful notes, and comprehensive introduction will guide readers through Ovid's wickedly witty poetic tour of the literature, mythology, topography, religion, politics, and (of course) sexuality of ancient Rome." Full Product DetailsAuthor: Ovid , Julia Dyson HejdukPublisher: University of Wisconsin Press Imprint: University of Wisconsin Press Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.411kg ISBN: 9780299302047ISBN 10: 0299302040 Pages: 304 Publication Date: 30 January 2015 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Tertiary & Higher Education , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In stock  We have confirmation that this item is in stock with the supplier. It will be ordered in for you and dispatched immediately. Table of ContentsReviewsTo conjoin Tristia 2 with the Ars and Remedia is unique and an excellent idea. Hejduk is an accomplished translator and a scholar who has written widely on Ovid. The expectations raised by those qualifications are not disappointed in the translation, which is accurate, readable, and true to the spirit and style of Ovid. John F. Miller, University of Virginia To conjoin Tristia 2 with the Ars and Remedia is unique and an excellent idea. Hejduk is an accomplished translator and a scholar who has written widely on Ovid. The expectations raised by those qualifications are not disappointed in the translation, which is accurate, readable, and true to the spirit and style of Ovid. --John F. Miller, University of Virginia Author InformationOvid (Publius Ovidius Naso, 43 BC–AD 17) was a popular Roman poet best known for his multivolume poem of myth and history, Metamorphoses.Julia Dyson Hejduk is a professor of classics at Baylor University. She is the author of Clodia: A Sourcebook and King of the Wood: The Sacrificial Victor in Virgil's “Aeneid”. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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