by Publio Ovidio Nasón · tapa dura · ISBN 9788424925345
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Tristes; Pónticas is a work that brings together two collections of poems by the Roman author Ovid. 'Tristes' (Tristia) is a collection of poems that Ovid wrote during his exile in Tomis, on the shores of the Black Sea. In these poems, the author expresses his sadness, loneliness and nostalgia for Rome, as well as his defense against the accusations that led to his banishment. 'Pónticas' (Epistulae ex Ponto) is another collection of letters in verse also written from exile. Addressed to friends and influential figures in Rome, Ovid seeks to obtain clemency and the end of his exile. Both works offer a personal and emotional vision of Ovid's life during his exile, as well as a reflection on power, politics and the human condition.
Publius Ovidius Naso, known in English as Ovid, was a Roman poet who lived during the reign of Augustus. He was a younger contemporary of Virgil and Horace, with whom he is often ranked as one of the three canonical poets of Latin literature. The Imperial scholar Quintilian considered him the last of the Latin love elegists. Although Ovid enjoyed enormous popularity during his lifetime, the emperor Augustus exiled him to Tomis, the capital of the newly organised province of Moesia, on the Black Sea, where he remained for the last nine or ten years of his life. Ovid himself attributed his banishment to a carmen et error, but his reluctance to disclose specifics has resulted in much speculation among scholars.
