Ovid
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Publius Ovidius Naso, (March 20, 43 BC – AD 17) Roman poet known to the English-speaking world as Ovid, wrote on topics of love, abandoned women, and mythological transformations.
Ovid wrote in elegiac couplets, with the exception of his great Metamorphoses, which he wrote in dactylic hexameter in imitation of Vergil's Aeneid and Homer's epics. Ovid does not offer an epic narrative like his predecessors but promises a chronological account of the cosmos from creation to his own day, incorporating many myths and legends from the Greek and Roman traditions.
Augustus banished Ovid in AD 8 to Tomis on the Black Sea for reasons that remain mysterious (Ovid himself wrote that it was because of an 'error' and a 'carmen' – a mistake and a poem). He may have had an affair with a female relative of Augustus, and the 'carmen' mentioned by Ovid may be his supposedly immoral Ars Amatoria, which had been available for some time.
- Amores ('The Loves'), 5 books, written after 20 BC (revised into 3 books c. AD 1
- Heroides ('The Heroines') or Epistulae Heroidum ('Letters of Heroines'), 21 letters of which the first group (letters 1–15) were written around 15 BC, letters 16–21 around AD 4-8.
- Ars Amatoria ('The Art of Love'), 3 books, the first two written about 1 BC to AD 1 and the third somewhat later.
- Remedium Amoris ('The Cure for Love'), 1 book
- Medicamina Faciei Femineae ('Women's Facial Cosmetics'), 100 lines surviving.
- Medea, a lost tragedy about Medea.
- Metamorphoses ('Transformations'), 15 books
- Fasti ('Festivals'), 6 books surviving which cover the first 6 months of the year and provide unique information on the Roman calendar.
- Tristia ('Sorrows'), 1 book, after AD 8
- Epistulae ex Ponto ('Letters from the Black Sea'), 4 books, after AD 8
- Ibis, a single poem, after AD 8
- Haleutica ('On Fishing'), which has probably not survived (see below).
- a poem in Getic, the language of Dacia where Ovid was exiled, not extant (and possible fictional).
Poems sometimes attributed to Ovid but generally considered spurious:
- Nux ('The Walnut Tree')
- Consolatio ad Liviam ('Consolation to Livia')
- Haleutica ('On Fishing'), a poem that some have identifed with the otherwise lost poem of the same name written by Ovid.
See Metamorphoses for external links specific to that work.
See Latin literature
External links
- Latin and English translation
- Perseus/Tufts: P. Ovidius Naso Amores, Ars Amatoria, Heroides (on this site called Epistulae), Metamorphoses, Remedia Amoris. Enhanced brower. Not downloadable.
- Sacred Texts Archive: Ovid Amores, Ars Amatoria, Medicamina Faciei Femineae, Metamorphoses, Remedia Amoris.
- Original Latin only
- Latin Library: Ovid Amores, Ars Amatoria, Epistulae ex Ponto, Fasti, Heroides, Ibis, Metamorphoses, Remedia Amoris, Tristia.
- Gutenberg Project: Fasti With introduction and extensive notes in English by Thomas Keightley. Plain text version.
- English translation only
- New translations by A. S. Kline Amores, Ars Amatoria, Epistulae ex Ponto, Fasti, Heroides, Ibis, Medicamina Faciei Femineae, Metamorphoses, Remedia Amoris, Tristia with enhanced browsing facility, downloadable in HTML, PDF, or MS Word DOC formats.
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