Due voci sul mar Nero: Luca Desiato alla (ri)scoperta dell’esilio ovidiano

2020 ◽  
Vol 40 (1) ◽  
pp. 103-127
Author(s):  
Dalila D’Alfonso
Keyword(s):  
Epistulae Ex Ponto

Le elegie dei Tristia e delle Epistulae ex Ponto rappresentano, ancora oggi, un riferimento imprescindibile per quanti vogliano indagare l’esperienza esilica in tutte le sue sfaccettature e in tutta la sua complessità. Non a caso, numerosi autori della contemporaneità hanno guardato alla poesia tomitana dell’ultimo Ovidio come a un vero e proprio paradigma per le scritture da e sull’esilio di ogni tempo. Nei quarantaquattro capitoli in cui articola il romanzo Sulle rive del Mar Nero (1992), Luca Desiato “scompone” l’animo umano toccato dalla sorte dell’esilio, un esilio che si presenta come condanna soprattutto interiore. Il protagonista, uno scrittore  che vive l’ultimo corso della sua esistenza nella Roma borghese degli anni Novanta, alterna la propria voce a quella del poeta romano, condannato da Augusto nell’8 d.C. alla relegatio perpetua. Saverio rappresenta, in primis, un esule dell’esistenza, un prigioniero del tempo ultimo che sta vivendo, un tempo estremo, come le terre del Ponto Eusino.

Poetics in Exile: An Analysis of "Epistulae ex Ponto" 3.9

1982 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 18-27
Author(s):  
Elizabeth Block
Keyword(s):  
Epistulae Ex Ponto

Chariton and Latin Elegy II

2021 ◽  
pp. 62-90
Author(s):  
Daniel Jolowicz
Keyword(s):  
Epistulae Ex Ponto ◽  
Latin Elegy

Chapter 2 establishes Ovid’s Heroides, Tristia, and Epistulae ex Ponto as central to a number of specific features of Chariton’s novel (especially the embedded letters). Section 2.2 focuses on the Heroides and the following epistolary motifs: the processes of composition and reception; the presence of tears; the recognition of handwriting; the role of memory and possessive adjectives; and the eroticization of the letter’s materiality. These contribute to the characterization of Chaereas and Dionysius as lamenting and abandoned heroines. Section 2.3 argues that Chariton has digested a number of motifs that characterize the exilic persona in Ovid’s Tristia and Epistulae ex Ponto, such as the role of finger rings and various psychosocial neuroses. As in Chapter 1, thematic proximities between Chariton and the elegiac corpus are supported by strikingly close points of verbal contact.

Ovid, poet, 43 BCE–17 CE

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen Hinds
Keyword(s):  
Black Sea ◽  
The Black Sea ◽  
Near Eastern ◽  
Direct Competition ◽  
Epistulae Ex Ponto ◽  
History Of ◽  
Ars Amatoria ◽  
The Universe

Born in 43 bce, Ovid first made his name at Rome as a playful and experimental love poet, in the Amores, the epistolary Heroides, and the didactic Ars Amatoria and Remedia Amoris; by about 2 ce, he was able to claim that “elegy owes as much to me as epic does to Virgil.” Concurrently with the epic Metamorphoses, he was at work (2–8 ce) on the elegiac Fasti, a poetical calendar of the Roman year, with one book devoted to each month; and he would spend his final decade further extending the range of elegy with the pleas and laments of the Tristia and Epistulae ex Ponto, sent to Rome from afar, along with the curse-poetry of the Ibis. When Ovid turned in his forties to epic, he did not attempt direct competition with the already classic Aeneid. The 15-book Metamorphoses recounted dozens of tales from classical and Near Eastern myth and legend, with no central hero, but with characters and settings changing every few pages; every episode was in some way a story of supernatural transformation, and the whole took the ostensibly chronological form of a history of the universe. As the epic neared completion in 8 ce, the poet was suddenly banished by the emperor Augustus to the Black Sea frontier, (a) for the perceived immorality of the almost decade-old Ars Amatoria, and (b) for a still-mysterious error or indiscretion. Ovid languished in his place of exile, Tomis (modern Constantsa), until his death, probably in 17 ce.

Epistulae ex Ponto

2009 ◽  
pp. 194-206
Author(s):  
Luigi Galasso
Keyword(s):  
Epistulae Ex Ponto

The Poetics of Exile: Program and Polemic in the Tristia and Epistulae ex Ponto of Ovid

1982 ◽  
Vol 103 (2) ◽  
pp. 224
Author(s):  
S. Georgia Nugent ◽  
Betty Rose Nagle
Keyword(s):  
Epistulae Ex Ponto
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