by neufer » Sun Jul 16, 2017 11:50 am
- As You Like It : Act III, scene III
TOUCHSTONE:
I am here with thee and thy goats, as the most
- capricious poet, honest Ovid, was among the Goths.
JAQUES: [Aside]
O knowledge ill-inhabited, worse than Jove in a thatched house!
TOUCHSTONE:
When a man's verses cannot be understood, nor a
- man's good wit seconded with the forward child
Understanding, it strikes a man more dead than a
great reckoning in a little room.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exile_of_Ovid wrote:
<<Ovid (20 March 43 BC – AD 17/18), the Latin poet of the Roman Empire, was banished in 8 AD from Rome to Tomis (now
Constanţa, Romania) by decree of the emperor Augustus. The reasons for his banishment are uncertain. Ovid's exile is related by the poet himself, and also in brief references to the event by Pliny the Elder and Statius. At the time, Tomis was a remote town on the edge of the civilised world; it lay beyond the Danube and was superficially Hellenized. According to Ovid, none of its citizens spoke Latin, which as an educated Roman he found trying. Ovid wrote that the cause of his exile was
carmen et error– "a poem and a mistake," claiming that his crime was worse than murder, more harmful than poetry. Ovid's poems in exile has been seen as of fundamental importance for the study of Roman aristocracy under Augustus and Tiberius, furnishing "precious pieces of information about events and persons". In modern times, classicists have questioned whether the exile was merely a farce, a misrepresentation by Ovid, or a rhetorical and literary device.>>
[list][size=150] As You Like It : Act III, scene III[/size][/list]
TOUCHSTONE: [b][i][color=#0000FF]I am here with thee and thy goats, as the most
[list] capricious poet, honest Ovid, was among the Goths.[/list][/color][/i][/b]JAQUES: [Aside] [b][i][color=#FF0000]O knowledge ill-inhabited, worse than [url=https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap170715.html]Jove in a thatched house[/url]![/color][/i][/b]
TOUCHSTONE: [b][i][color=#0000FF]When a man's verses cannot be understood, nor a
[list] man's good wit seconded with the forward child
Understanding, it strikes a man more dead than a
great reckoning in a little room.[/list][/color][/i][/b][quote=" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exile_of_Ovid"]
[float=right][img3="[b][color=#0000FF][size=150]Ovid among the Scythians (Goths), Delacroix 1862[/size][/color][/b]"]https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d2/Eug%C3%A8ne_Delacroix_-_Ovide_chez_les_Scythes_%281862%29.jpg/1024px-Eug%C3%A8ne_Delacroix_-_Ovide_chez_les_Scythes_%281862%29.jpg[/img3][/float]<<Ovid (20 March 43 BC – AD 17/18), the Latin poet of the Roman Empire, was banished in 8 AD from Rome to Tomis (now [url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constan%C8%9Ba]Constanţa, Romania[/url]) by decree of the emperor Augustus. The reasons for his banishment are uncertain. Ovid's exile is related by the poet himself, and also in brief references to the event by Pliny the Elder and Statius. At the time, Tomis was a remote town on the edge of the civilised world; it lay beyond the Danube and was superficially Hellenized. According to Ovid, none of its citizens spoke Latin, which as an educated Roman he found trying. Ovid wrote that the cause of his exile was [b][i][color=#FF0000]carmen et error– "a poem and a mistake,"[/color][/i][/b] claiming that his crime was worse than murder, more harmful than poetry. Ovid's poems in exile has been seen as of fundamental importance for the study of Roman aristocracy under Augustus and Tiberius, furnishing "precious pieces of information about events and persons". In modern times, classicists have questioned whether the exile was merely a farce, a misrepresentation by Ovid, or a rhetorical and literary device.>>[/quote]