tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-195550034564304199.post7743548652213235162..comments2024-03-07T09:04:43.436-05:00Comments on Ovid's Metamorphoses: Circe and Pomona, Greece and RomeTom Matrullohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11460789537848811061noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-195550034564304199.post-8512535613062032772013-03-17T16:12:53.839-04:002013-03-17T16:12:53.839-04:00Hi Benjamin - Thanks for the interesting questions...Hi Benjamin - Thanks for the interesting questions. I've not read the Helieutica, but am happy to find an old English translation here for free, so I will be reading it. <br /><br />http://books.google.com/books/reader?id=0YVfAAAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover&output=reader&pg=GBS.PA498<br /><br />I've not studied the question of Ovid's exile, but am perhaps less surprised that students of the poet would suggest that he only pretended to be exiled than I would with almost any other writer. After all, he's fascinated precisely with the question of fiction and with the power of language to act - your interest in him suggests you are responding to these elements in his work. The "Ibis" is a sustained "act" and one can only wonder what became of the object of the curse. Thanks for making me more aware of what Ovid was up to, whether in the real Tomis, or a literary version of it.<br /><br />Tom Matrullohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11460789537848811061noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-195550034564304199.post-44483529216970229852013-03-14T12:06:50.932-04:002013-03-14T12:06:50.932-04:00Hi, thanks for this post. I'm an MFA student a...Hi, thanks for this post. I'm an MFA student at the School of Visual Arts in NYC. Currently I'm working on a sculpture dealing with Ovid's exile, using fabrics and a small diorama constructed out of wood and plaster. I'm interested in the question of whether his exile was fictionalized. If so, you could see his texts as being "performative" in a way that I think relates to contemporary performance art. If he didn't fictionalize it, then that raises lots of interesting political questions about his work. Either way, I'm very interested in all this and really enjoyed your post. Do you have an opinion on his exile? Also, do you know anything about Helieutica?Benjamin J. Thorpehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10573996114986735327noreply@blogger.com