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Ovid in Exile
This study considers exile in Ovid's Tristia and Epistulae ex Ponto as a place of genuine suffering and a metaphor for poetry's marginalization from Rome. It analyzes, in particular, the poet's representation of himself and the emperor Augustus against the background of Roman religion, law, and poetry.
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One hundred and four horses : a memoir of farm and family, Africa and exile
\"Pat and Mandy Retzlaff lived a hard but satisfying farming life in Zimbabwe. Working all hours of the day on their sprawling ranch and raising three boisterous children, they savored the beauty of the veld and the diverse wildlife that grazed the meadows outside their dining room window. After their children, the couple's true pride and joy were their horses. But in early 2001, the Retzlaffs' lives were thrown into turmoil when armed members of President Robert Mugabe's War Veterans' Association began invading the farmlands owned by white Zimbabweans and violently reclaiming the land\"--Dust jacket flap.
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Deutsche Altertumswissenschaftler im amerikanischen Exil
Die Studie rekonstruiert die Lebensschicksale zehn deutscher Altertumswissenschaftler, die nach der Machtübernahme durch die Nationalsozialisten aufgrund ihrer jüdischen Herkunft oder ihrer \"politischen Unzuverlässigkeit\" nach den Bestimmungen des am 7.
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A mingling of swans : a Cork Fenian and friends 'visit' Australia
Casey was one of a group of Fenians arrested in 1865 in Cork and transported to Western Australia with other Fenians captured in the abortive 1867 Rising. This text includes Casey's unpublished account of his experiences as a convict on roadwork parties, as well as correspondence by Casey and other Fenians.
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A Circle of Friends
A study of Romanian revolutionaries exiled after the European insurrections of 1848. Drawing on their memoirs and private correspondence, it reveals the transnational links they established with French republicans, English radicals and Italian freedom-fighters in their attempts to build the modern Romanian nation.
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The Mystery of Ovid's Exile
Toward the end of the year A.D. 8, the emperor Augustus publicly
sentenced the poet Ovid to exile in remote and barbaric Tomis on
the Black Sea. The action presumably followed a secret hearing
before the emperor, and the official reason given for the sentence
was Ovid's authorship of a licentious work, the Ars
amatoria, ten years earlier. The Mystery of Ovid's
Exile is both a survey and an analysis of the literary
detective work that has been devoted to explaining the cause of
Ovid's banishment from Rome. In poems composed during his exile,
Ovid laments having written the Ars amatoria, but he
obviously considers the poem to be merely a pretext for his
punishment. His downfall appears to have been caused by his having
witnessed, or in some fashion been implicated in, a crime committed
either by the emperor himself or by an immediate member of the
imperial family. However, it's possible that Ovid's banishment may
have been ordered merely because he was unwittingly in possession
of the key to an embarrassing secret, the importance of which he
might have realized had he remained in Rome. John C. Thibault
examines more than one hundred available hypotheses that have been
advanced by inquisitive scholars from the Middle Ages to our own
day. He demonstrates the unsoundness of each hypothesis in turn,
and suggests that a solution to the problem of Ovid's exile is not
possible given the available evidence. The Mystery of Ovid's
Exil treats a controversy that will fascinate classical
scholars as well as general readers interested in Roman manners and
morals of the period. This title is part of UC Press's Voices
Revived program, which commemorates University of California
Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and
give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to
1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship
accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title
was originally published in 1964.
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Beatriz Allende
This biography of Beatriz Allende (1942-1977)-revolutionary doctor and daughter of Chile's socialist president, Salvador Allende-portrays what it means to live, love, and fight for change. Inspired by the Cuban Revolution, Beatriz and her generation drove political campaigns, university reform, public health programs, internationalist guerrilla insurgencies, and government strategies. Centering Beatriz's life within the global contours of the Cold War era, Tanya Harmer exposes the promises and paradoxes of the revolutionary wave that swept through Latin America in the long 1960s. Drawing on exclusive access to Beatriz's private papers, as well as firsthand interviews, Harmer connects the private and political as she reveals the human dimensions of radical upheaval. Exiled to Havana after Chile's right-wing military coup, Beatriz worked tirelessly to oppose dictatorship back home. Harmer's interviews make vivid the terrible consequences of the coup for the Chilean Left, the realities of everyday life in Havana, and the unceasing demands of solidarity work that drained Beatriz and her generation of the dreams they once had. Her story demolishes the myth that women were simply extras in the story of Latin America's Left and brings home the immense cost of a revolutionary moment's demise.
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