Life on the margins -- Truth stranger than fiction: poet exiled under suspicious circumstances! -- Meanwhile, back in Rome?: Ovid's historical context -- Repetition compulsion and Ovidian excess -- Now you see him, now you still see him: Ovidian narrative style and metre -- Same story, different day: a poetics of repetition -- Romans at home and abroad: identity and the colonial subject -- Strangers in a strange land: explorers and exiles -- Speaking and silence; victims and victimizers -- Empire and colonialism.
