Transformations of Ovid in Late Antiquity By Fielding, Ian Ian Fielding,

Transformations of Ovid in Late Antiquity\nby Ian Fielding\nHardback\nEnglish\n\nBrand new copy from BookCurl \u2013 the UK independent online bookseller.\n\n------------------------------\nBook details\n------------------------------\nAuthor: Ian Fielding\nTitle: Transformations of Ovid in Late Antiquity\nFormat: Hardback\nLanguage: English\nTopic: Ancient history\nPublisher: Cambridge University Press\nPublication year: 2017\nISBN-13: 9781107178434\nISBN-10: 1107178436\n\n------------------------------\nDescription\n------------------------------\nOvid could be considered the original poet of late antiquity. In his exile poetry, he depicts a world in which Rome has become a distant memory, a community accessible only through his imagination. This, Ovid claimed, was a transformation as remarkable as any he had recounted in his Metamorphoses. Ian Fielding''s book shows how late antique Latin poets referred to Ovid''s experiences of isolation and estrangement as they reflected on the .