When she swims, she seems to become the water itself, reminding Ovid of his own characters and creations in the Metamorphosis -and leading him to feel stirrings of his next work. And such a lucky choice of getaway it is-for what finer creature should he meet along the forested Black Sea shores than Xenia, the sylph-like girl of 20, of immense beauty and mystery, who was found by villagers as an unparented infant. ) is taking a trip to the Black Sea, purportedly to remove himself from the emperor's view for a time-just out of caution-but also to catch his poetic breath pending the publication of the Metamorphoses, on which the ambitious Ovid pins his most fervent hopes for lasting fame. The great Roman poet, author of Ars Amatoria and the Metamorphoses, is the subject of Alison's fascinating debut: an imagined explanation of what it might have been that caused the emperor Augustus to exile Ovid from Rome for life.Īs the story opens, Ovid (b.
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