Articles with keyword: Bible

The Myth of Ovid’s Exile
Michael Fontaine Cornell University fontaine@cornell.edu

ELECTRYONE 

2019
Volume 6, Issue 1

 | pp.

1-14

Abstract:

Ovid was not exiled; the evidence is massively against it. This is not a new idea, but it is a deeply unpopular, even heretical one. In this paper, I suggest reasons why scholars resist it, and I plead for a new understanding of what the “exile” poetry is.
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