LEADER 03417cam a2200469 i 4500001 99125567371706421 005 20240813094054.0 008 211126s2022 wiu b 001 0 eng^^ 010 2021047930 019 1293455257 020 9780299337803 |qhardcover 020 0299337804 |qhardcover 035 (OCoLC)on1293451496 040 WU/DLC |beng |erda |cDLC |dYDX |dOCLCO |dBDX |dOCLCF |dOCLCO |dERASA |dUKMGB |dYDX 042 pcc 050 00 PA6519.H7 |bO88 2022 082 00 871/.01 |223/eng/20220124 100 1 Ottone, Megan Drinkwater, |d1972- |eauthor. 245 10 Ovid's Heroides and the Augustan principate / |cMegan O. Drinkwater. 264 1 Madison, Wisconsin : |bThe University of Wisconsin Press, |c[2022] 300 x, 179 pages ; |c24 cm. 336 text |btxt |2rdacontent 337 unmediated |bn |2rdamedia 338 volume |bnc |2rdacarrier 490 1 Wisconsin studies in classics 504 Includes bibliographical references and indexes. 520 8 43 BCE, the year after the assassination of Julius Caesar. While the Roman republic had seen many conflicts, it was this civil war, headed by the vengeful triumvirate of Mark Anthony, Marcus Lepidus, and Octavian, that irrevocably transformed Rome with its upheaval. What followed was years of fighting and the eventual ascendancy of Octavian, who from 27 BCE onwards would be best known as Caesar Augustus, founder of the Roman Principate.0It was in this era of turmoil and transformation that Ovid, the Roman poet best known for Metamorphoses, was born. The Heroides, one of his earliest and most elusive works, is not written from the first-person perspective that so often characterizes the elegiac poetry of that time but from the personae of tragic heroines of classical mythology.0Megan O. Drinkwater illustrates how Ovid used innovations of literary form to articulate an expression of the crisis of civic identity in Rome at a time of extreme and permanent political change. The letters are not divorced from the context of their composition but instead elucidate that context for their readers and expose how Ovid engaged in politics throughout his entire career. Their importance is as much historical as literary. Drinkwater makes a compelling case for understanding the Heroides as a testament from one of Rome's most eloquent writers to the impact that the dramatic shift from republic to empire had on its intellectual elites. 600 00 Ovid, |d43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D. |tHeroides. 600 00 Ovid, |d43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D. |xPolitical and social views. 650 0 Epistolary poetry, Latin |xHistory and criticism. 650 6 Poésie épistolaire latine |0(CaQQLa)201-0165243 |xHistoire et critique. |0(CaQQLa)201-0377571 600 07 Ovid, |d43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D. |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst01839763 630 07 Heroides (Ovid) |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst01357087 650 7 Epistolary poetry, Latin. |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst00914353 650 7 Political and social views. |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst01353986 655 7 Criticism, interpretation, etc. |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst01411635 830 0 Wisconsin studies in classics 910 |cG0601mon |d3110-08 |gYBP |h414615 914 (OCoLC)on1293451496 |bOCoLC |cmatch |d20221117 |eprocessed |f1293451496 980 17803443 |i79.95 |j65.56 |n40031278763 982 |cclas |q32101118807484 986 |hPA6519.H7 |iO88 2022