dc.contributor.advisor | Welch, Tara | |
dc.contributor.author | Murphy, Holly Lynn | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2013-01-20T17:18:10Z | |
dc.date.available | 2013-01-20T17:18:10Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2012-05-31 | |
dc.date.submitted | 2012 | |
dc.identifier.other | http://dissertations.umi.com/ku:12124 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/1808/10674 | |
dc.description.abstract | This thesis explores the physical landscapes and social interactions that form Ovid's home in Rome, as well as his vision of a transcendent home made possible through poetry. My case-studies will be poems from Ovid's Tristia in which he either directly reconstructs home or provides a photographic negative image of home by highlighting the opposite: the barbaric. I will spend the first chapter examining Ovid's construction of home's physical landscape. In Tristia 3.10 and 3.12, Ovid recreates Rome as a sort of negative image of Tomis. Rome is what Tomis is not. In Chapter Two, I will look at Ovid's reconstruction of social interaction; alienated in Tomis, he maintains his connections in Rome through his absent presence, as exemplified in Tristia 3.5. But home for Ovid is more than Rome. In Chapter Three, I will examine Ovid's position as a sacred vates who can, through his poetry, have a transcendent home on Mount Helicon. Tiberius's future triumph in Germany (Tristia 4.2) gives Ovid the opportunity to join himself to Caesar's triumph; his poem becomes the symbolic declaration of his own victory over the world. His letter to his daughter Perilla (Tristia 3.4), who is also a poet, reveals that poetry gives Ovid a companionship with her even while he is absent; poetry allows him friendships that spans any distance. I will also examine Tristia 4.10, Ovid's autobiography, as a further example of Ovid's transcendent home on Mount Helicon. He spent his boyhood on Mount Helicon, and in his early years he becomes known and read in the city; in exile he finally becomes known and read in the whole world. | |
dc.format.extent | 66 pages | |
dc.language.iso | en | |
dc.publisher | University of Kansas | |
dc.rights | This item is protected by copyright and unless otherwise specified the copyright of this thesis/dissertation is held by the author. | |
dc.subject | Classical studies | |
dc.subject | Exile | |
dc.subject | Home | |
dc.subject | Ovid | |
dc.subject | Poetry | |
dc.subject | Tristia | |
dc.title | Reconstructing Home in Exile: Ovid's Tristia | |
dc.type | Thesis | |
dc.contributor.cmtemember | Scioli, Emma | |
dc.contributor.cmtemember | Corbeill, Anthony | |
dc.thesis.degreeDiscipline | Classics | |
dc.thesis.degreeLevel | M.A. | |
kusw.oastatus | na | |
kusw.oapolicy | This item does not meet KU Open Access policy criteria. | |
dc.rights.accessrights | openAccess | |