McGowan (classics, Fordham U., New York City) revises his 2002 Ph.D. dissertation at New York University explores the relationship between Roman poet Ovid (43 BC- 17 AD) and the emperor
Augustine, who exiled him from Rome, and how he constructed the figure of the poet in exile. He looks at the redress of exile, the historical reality and poetic representation, crimes and
punishments, god and man, religious ritual and poetic devotion, space and justice, the legal limits of empire, Ovid's portrayal of himself as poet and exile, and the exile's last word.
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