Epistulae ex Ponto
Epistulae ex Ponto ("Letters from the Black Sea") is a collection of 46 "letters" by the Roman poet Ovid in elegiac distiches , which are spread over four books. Ovid wrote it between AD 12 and 17 during his exile on the Black Sea . They are the continuation of the Tristien and contain roughly the same motifs : Describing the hardships of exile combined with the request for mercy. They differ from the Tristien in the specific addressing of people from the Emperor Augustus ' environment , especially Germanicus . The tone of the letters is more conciliatory than in the Tristien and expresses a certain affection for the inhabitants of Tomis . The letters are carried by a melancholy tone. The letters are especially important for the knowledge of the living conditions in Scythia Minor during Ovid's time.
expenditure
- Ovid with an English Translation. Tristia. Ex ponto . By Arthur Lesley Wheeler . ( Loeb Classical Library L151 ) Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass. 1939 ( digitized ).
- Publius Ovidius Naso: Letters from Exile. Tristia - Epistulae ex Ponto. Translated by Wilhelm Willige. Introduced and explained by Niklas Holzberg . Fischer Taschenbuch, Frankfurt am Main 1993, ISBN 3-596-10498-X .
- Beatrice Larosa: P. Ovidii Nasonis Epistula ex Ponto III 1. Testo, traduzione e commento. De Gruyter, Berlin a. a. 2012, ISBN 978-3-11-029849-9 .
literature
- Alexander Podossinov: Ovid's poetry as a source for the history of the Black Sea region . Universitäts-Verlag Konstanz, Konstanz 1987, ISBN 3-87940-249-3 .
- Burkard Chwalek: The transformation of exile into the elegiac world. Studies on the Tristia and Epistulae ex Ponto Ovids . Lang, Frankfurt a. a. 1996, ISBN 3-631-49403-3 .
- Karin Florian: Ovid's years at the Pontus. A diachronic analysis of the Tristia and Epistulae ex Ponto as an early example of European exile literature . Studien-Verlag, Innsbruck u. a. 2007, ISBN 978-3-7065-4229-6 .