Ovid and Augustus: A Political Reading of Ovid's Erotic Poems by P.J. Davis...

Ovid and Augustus: A Political Reading of Ovid's Erotic Poems by P.J. Davis... \n\nThe book is in very good condition. If it were not for a very small mark on the front facing exposed pages it would be describe as like new. It comes from a smoke free house. \n\nDeals with one of the most contentious issues in the study of Roman literature - the relationship between Augustan literary texts and Augustan politics. This work reads Ovid's early works against their political context, and argues that they challenge the Augustan regime's ideology and resist the Augustan conception of what it was to be Roman.\n\n\""Ovid and Augustus\"" deals with one of the most contentious issues in the study of Roman literature, the relationship between Augustan literary texts and Augustan politics. One of the central facts of Ovid's life is that he was exiled to the shores of the Black Sea. The poet himself tells us that he was being punished because of a poem and a mistake. Although the mistake is unknowabl.