Ovid: Ibis
Format: Paperback
ISBN13: 9781904675204
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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 anunnamed 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 byGareth 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 Latinstudy.
| ISBN-13 | 9781904675204 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10 | 1904675204 |
| Weight | 0.85 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 8.50 x 0.80 x 5.50 In |
| List Price | $54.95 |
| Edition | 1st Edition |
| Format | Paperback |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| Pages | 290 pages |
| Publisher | Liverpool University Press |
| Published On | 2009-02-15 |
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