Ovid Tristia 1

Ovid Tristia 1Asterisked *items = those of particular use or importance

Text: S. G. Owen, OCT (195)Translation: A.D. Melville, Ovid, Sorrows of an Exile (Tristia) (Oxford, 1992)A.L. Wheeler (Loeb, 1924)Commentaries:G. Luck, 2 vols. (Heidelberg 1967, 1977): on the whole of the Tristia in GermanS. Posch Tristia 1 (Innsbruck 1983)J. Andr Ovide: Tristes (Bud 1968)F. della Corte I Tristi , 2 vols. (Genoa 1973)

For a general recent overview of work on the exile poetry see the two surveys by Gareth Williams: 'Ovid's exile poetry', in Cambridge Companion to Ovid 233-45; and 'Ovid's exilic poetry' in Brill's Companion to Ovid, 337-81.

Ramus 26 (1997) is an issue devoted to the exile poetry.

Books on Ovid's exile poetry:*H. B. Evans Publica carmina: Ovid's books from exile (Lincoln, Nebraska, and London 1983): goes through the books of exile poems in chronological order; ch. 2 on Tristia 1.*B. R. Nagle The poetics of exile: program and polemic in the Tristia and Epistulae ex Ponto of Ovid (Brussels 1980): thoughtful discussion of various aspects of the exile poetry.*G. D. Williams Banished voices. Readings in Ovid's exile poetry (Cambridge 1994): sophisticated treatment of the poetics of the exile poetry; includes detailed discussion of Tristia 1.5.R. Syme History in Ovid (Oxford 1978): has more to say on Ex Ponto with its named addressees.J. C. Thibault The mystery of Ovid's exile (Berkeley and Los Angeles 1964): reviews the various theories.A. Videau-Delibes Les Tristes d'Ovide et l'elgie romaine: une potique de la rupture (Paris 1991): contains muchof value.H. H. Froesch Ovid als Dichter des Exils (Bonn 1976)M. Drucker Der verbannte dichter und der Kaiser-Gott. Studien zu Ovids spten Elegien (Heidelberg 1977): argues that Ovid constructs a critical picture of Augustus as an angry god, rather than dealing out base flattery.J.-M. Claassen Displaced persons: the literature of exile from Cicero to Boethius (Madison, Wisconsin 1999): large-scale study in which Ovid ranks large.E. Doblhofer Exil und Emigration: zum Erlebnis der Heimatferne in der rmischen Literatur (Darmstadt 1987): an essay on the concept of exile in Latin literature, with extensive discussion of the Ovidian material.

The older books on Ovid tend to have overly dismissive sections on the exile poetry.Articles:J.-M. Claassen 'Error and the imperial household: an angry god and the exiled poet's fate', Act. Class. 30 (1987) 31-47: discusses the question of whether the treatment of the imperial family is simple flattery or irony.ead., Ovids Poetic Pontus, Paper of Leeds International Latin Seminar 6 (1990), 65-94M. H. Davisson 'Omnia naturae praepostera legibus ibunt. ADYNATA in Ovid's exile poems', CJ 76 (1980) 124-8id., 'The functions of openings in Ovid's exile epistles', CB 58 (1981) 17-22R. J. Dickinson 'The Tristia: poetry in exile', in J. W. Binns (ed.) Ovid (London 1973) 154-90: slight, but reasonable introduction.J. Diggle 'Notes on Ovid's Tristia, books I-II', CQ 30 (1980) 401-19A. D. Fitton Brown 'The unreality of Ovid's Tomitan exile', LCM 10.2 (1985) 18-22: attempts to revive the theory that Ovid never really went to the Black Sea.A. Grisart 'La pubblication des Mtamorphoses: une source du rcit d'Ovide (Tristes 1.7.11-40)', in Atti del convegno internazionale ovidiano, Sulmona 1958 (Rome 1959) ii. 125-56: detailed discussion of the historical and literary background to Ovid's statements about the Met. in Tr. 1.7.*M. Helzle 'Ovid's poetics of exile', ICS 13.1 (1988) 73-83*S. E. Hinds 'Booking the return trip: Ovid and Tristia 1', PCPhS 31 (1985) 13-32*id., First among women: Ovid, and the traditions of exemplary catalogue, in S. M. Braund and R. Mayer (eds) amor:roma. Love and Latin literature (Cambr. Philol. Soc. suppl. 22 [1999]) 123-42: largely on Tr. 1.6.*E. J. Kenney 'The poetry of Ovid's exile', PCPhS 191 (1965) 37-49: includes discussion of Tristia 1.6.*E. Oliensis 'Return to sender: the rhetoric of nomina in Ovid's Tristia', Ramus 26 (1997) 172-93N. V. Vulikh 'Ovid's Tristia and Letters from Pontus as historical source material', VDI 127 (1974) 64-79*G. D. Williams 'Representations of the book-roll in Latin poetry: Tr. 1.1.3-14 and related texts', Mnemosyne 45 (1992) 178-89

For something different try C. Ransmayr's novel The last world (transl. J. Woods, London 1990), a fantasy about Cotta's journey to the Black Sea in search of his friend Ovid.