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Epilogue

Ovid in Exile and Augustan Environmental Poetry

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 December 2024

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The epilogue briefly considers Ovid’s exile poetry from an environmental and place-based perspective. Ovid demonstrates that environmental poetry does not need to rely on a positive attachment to a local land. His exile poetry is about and is marked by place, shaped by the location from which Ovid is estranged and the location in which he writes. Moreover, local place matters to Ovid as a particular more-than-human environment. Tomis is represented as an environment with its own specific geography, climate, and ecologies. Ovid further explores ecological themes by emphasizing the physical effects Tomis has on his body, through motifs of cold and sickness. The epilogue also uses Ovid’s exilic work to clarify the theoretical foundations of the environmental poetics identified in Vergil and Horace. Through his provocative play with intertextuality and fictionality, Ovid demonstrates that environmental poetics can rely not on realistic description or extratextual reference, but rather on the poetic imagination.

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Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2024

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  • Epilogue
  • Erik Pugh Fredericksen
  • Book: The Environmental Poetry of Augustan Rome
  • Online publication: 12 December 2024
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009476157.008
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  • Epilogue
  • Erik Pugh Fredericksen
  • Book: The Environmental Poetry of Augustan Rome
  • Online publication: 12 December 2024
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009476157.008
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  • Epilogue
  • Erik Pugh Fredericksen
  • Book: The Environmental Poetry of Augustan Rome
  • Online publication: 12 December 2024
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009476157.008
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