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Ovid, Tristia 1.2: high drama on the high seas (2006)
Journal Article
Ingleheart, J. (2006). Ovid, Tristia 1.2: high drama on the high seas. Greece and Rome, 53(1), 73-91. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0017383506000052

In the first poem of Tristia 1, Ovid claims me mare, me uenti, me fera iactat hiems (‘the sea, the winds, the savage winter storm harass me repeatedly’, 1.1.42). This is no mere rhetorical flourish: the immediacy of the present tense becomes apparent... Read More about Ovid, Tristia 1.2: high drama on the high seas.