OVIDIU’S EXILE POETRY – SOURCE FOR ESTABLISHING THE TRUTH REGARDING THE PLACES, CLIMATE AND VEGETATION IN TOMIS
OVIDIU’S EXILE POETRY – SOURCE FOR ESTABLISHING THE TRUTH REGARDING THE PLACES, CLIMATE AND VEGETATION IN TOMIS

Summary/Abstract: Ovidian exile opera offers numerous pretious informations about Scythia Minor, Dobrogea today that historians have not capitalized only from the late XIX century and early XX century, after digs in the territory of Dobrogea, when archaeologists and historians have realized that the ovidian source deserve more attention. Although seen with the eye of the poet and not with the historian one, at a careful reading of operas „Tristia” and „Epistulae ex Ponto”, informations about placing Tomis, about population, about climate and vegetation comes to light, and their comparison with literary sources of the time, with the historical and archaeological ones helps us find out how much of the information left by Ovidius can be capitalized in establishing historical truth.

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