LAT 225 - Ovid: Poetry From Exile

Carmen et error (“a poem and a mistake”). Many of us have perhaps done worse, and yet these are what the poet Ovidsays provoked the Roman emperor Augustus to exile him for life. Ovid nevertheless kept the carmina coming, writing his Tristia, Epistulae ex Ponto, and Ibis from the Black Sea. We will read in Latin excerpts from these collections, considering how his experience of estrangement and disconnection influenced this renowned writer’s amor Romae, his feelings toward friend and foe, and, of course, his invention of a new genre of sorts: poetry from exile.

Satisfies the Literary Studies, Creative Writing, and Rhetoric requirement.
Counts towards the Classical Languages and Literature major and as an elective for the Classical Studies major.
Counts towards the interdisciplinary minor in Global Literary Theory.

Prerequisites & Notes
LAT 201 or placement test. Students who have taken a LAT course beyond 201 should enroll in this course as LAT 328. (Fall 2019)