If you want to examine a book for possible rights licensing, please see Rights & Permissions.)Īny page in this web site, contact our Web manager.Many periods in Rome’s long history produced great poets.From the end of the Republic in the mid-first century BC, we have Lucretius’s Epicurean masterpiece, On the Nature of Things, and the kaleidoscopic variety of Catullus’s oeuvre, ranging from the coarse obscenities of political epigram, through beautiful love lyrics, to the sophistication of epicizing mythological narrative. (If you want to examine a book for possible course use, please see our Course Books page. Media & bookseller inquiries regarding review copies, events, and interviews can be directed to the publicity department at or (608) 263-0734. “Johnson offer useful interpretive observations, especially on Ovid’s use of his Greek and Latin influences.” Johnson is associate professor of classical studies at Boston University. Johnson shows how Ovid, in the episodes of artistic creation that anchor his Metamorphoses, responded to his audience and commented on artistic circumstances in Rome. By Ovid’s final decade in Rome, the atmosphere for artistic work had transformed, leading to a drop in poetic production of quality. Johnson demonstrates how the production of art-specifically poetry-changed dramatically during the reign of Augustus. Ovid before Exile provides a compelling new reading of the epic, examining the text in light of circumstances surrounding the final years of Augustus’s reign, a time when a culture of poets and patrons was in sharp decline, discouraging and even endangering artistic freedom of expression. Yet its irreverent tone and bold defiance of generic boundaries set the Metamorphoses apart from its contemporaries. The epic Metamorphoses, Ovid’s most renowned work, has regained its stature among the masterpieces of great poets such as Vergil, Horace, and Tibullus.
Rosenmeyer, Series EditorsĮxplores the Metamorphoses, Ovid’s response to the quelling of artistic freedom in late Augustan Rome
UW Press - Ovid before Exile - Art and Punishment in the Metamorphoses - Patricia J.
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