Ovid's Tristia: Rethinking Memory and Immortality in Exile

dc.contributor.advisor	Jaeger, Mary
dc.contributor.author	Landry, Desiree
dc.date.accessioned	2015-08-18T23:14:18Z
dc.date.available	2015-08-18T23:14:18Z
dc.date.issued	2015-08-18
dc.description.abstract	In my research, I take up the questions of Ovid’s relationship to his poetry and the rethinking of exilic motifs and poetic motifs through the lens of exile. Throughout the Tristia, in particular, Ovid illustrates a complex series of questions on why he writes in exile. He writes, “What have I to do with you, little books, my unlucky obsession, I, wretched, who was destroyed by my talent?” Ovid provides two direct answers to his own question: first, writing brings him comfort in exile, and second, it keeps his name alive in Rome. I explore how Ovid adapts the motif of poetic immortality to the exilic motif of exile as death and employs the act of writing as a resistance to Augustus.	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	https://hdl.handle.net/1794/19349
dc.language.iso	en_US
dc.publisher	University of Oregon
dc.rights	All Rights Reserved.
dc.subject	Exile	en_US
dc.subject	Ovid	en_US
dc.subject	Tristia	en_US
dc.title	Ovid's Tristia: Rethinking Memory and Immortality in Exile
dc.type	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
thesis.degree.discipline	Department of Classics
thesis.degree.grantor	University of Oregon
thesis.degree.level	masters
thesis.degree.name	M.A.

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