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  title info:
    title: Ovid's Heroides and the Augustan principate
  name:
    name part: Ottone, Megan Drinkwater
    name part: 1972-
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: wiu
    date issued: 2022
    copyright date: 2022
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: x, 179 pages ; 24 cm.
  abstract: 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. Megan 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.
  note: Megan O. Drinkwater.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Ovid
      name part: 43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Ovid
      name part: 43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D
    topic: Political and social views
  subject:
    topic: Epistolary poetry, Latin
    topic: History and criticism
  classification: PA6519.H7 O88 2022
  classification: 871/.01
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Wisconsin studies in classics
  identifier: 9780299337803
  identifier: 0299337804
  identifier: 2021047930
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 211126
    record change date: 20220926163408.7
    record identifier: in00004592924