LAT 325 - 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 Ovid says 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 as an elective toward the Classical Studies major and the Classical Languages and Literature major.
Counts towards the interdisciplinary minor in Global Literary Theory.

 

Prerequisites & Notes
LAT 201 or placement test. 
(Not offered in 2020-2021)