Ovid by David Wishart
In AD8, Augustus banished the poet Ovid to Tomi, on the Black Sea. In spite of repeated appeals by his friends in Rome for the sentence to be revoked, he died in exile ten years later. No one knows why Ovid was banished. The most convincing explanation is that Ovid was involved somehow with the emperor's granddaughter Julia, who was exiled the same year for immorality. However, Julia's sexual partner was sentenced to nothing worse than social ostracism. Her husband, on the other hand, was executed shortly afterwards for treason ... Why should the witness to a crime be punished far more harshly than the person who committed it? And why - was he not allowed to return to Rome with the other exiles on Tiberius's accession? All these questions are debated and explained in a lively and dramatic way by Marcus Corvinus, an engaging mixture of Philip Marlowe and a Roman hooray Henry, who adds a new dimension to the ranks of literary sleuths.
.. gripping, ... intellectually stimulating ... Chandler meets Robert Graves and John Barth' - TLS
David Wishart studied Classics at Edinburgh University. He then taught Latin and Greek in school for four years and after this retrained as a teacher of EFL. He lived and worked abroad for eleven years, working in Kuwait, Greece and Saudi Arabia, and now lives with his wife and family in Scotland.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780340646823 |
| ISBN 10 | 0340646829 |
| Title | Ovid |
| Author | David Wishart |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Hodder & Stoughton |
| Year published | 1995-08-17 |
| Number of pages | 379 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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