Ovid's main surviving works are the Metamorphoses, a source of inspiration to artists and poets including Chaucer and Shakespeare; the Fasti, a poetic treatment of the Roman year of which Ovid finished only half; the Amores, love poems; the Ars Amatoria, not moral but clever and in parts beautiful; Heroides, fictitious love letters by legendary ...

Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso, 43 BCE –17 CE), born at Sulmo, studied rhetoric and law at Rome. Later he did considerable public service there, and otherwise devoted himself to poetry and to society.

Oct 7, 2023 · Wikipedia has entries on the Roman poet Ovid (about 43 B.C. to A.D. 18), and on his work Metamorphoses, which describes myths about gods, people, animals, and objects transforming, or being transformed, from one thing to another.

Jan 1, 1984 · The first major Roman poet to begin his career during the reign of Augustus, Ovid is today best known for the Metamorphoses, a 15-book continuous mythological narrative written in the meter of epic, and for collections of love poetry in elegiac couplets, especially the Amores ("Love Affairs") and Ars Amatoria ("The Art of Love").

Ovid’s main surviving works are the Metamorphoses, a source of inspiration to artists and poets including Chaucer and Shakespeare; the Fasti, a poetic treatment of the Roman year of which Ovid finished only half; the Amores, love poems; the Ars amatoria, not moral but clever and in parts beautiful; Heroides, fictitious love letters by ...

Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso, 43 BCE –17 CE), born at Sulmo, studied rhetoric and law at Rome. Later he did considerable public service there, and otherwise devoted himself to poetry and to society.

Jul 8, 2013 · With an English translation by J.H. Mozley, sometime scholar of King's College, Cambridge; Lecturer in Classics, University of London. De medicamine faciei,...

Aug 9, 2024 · Ovid's Fasti, translated from Latin by James George Frazer (New York, 1931), in 492 bookmarked and searchable pdf pages, Loeb Classical Library volume L253. Attached to the document is a multilingual HTML version made from A.S. Kline's English translation (2004).

The first major Roman poet to begin his career during the reign of Augustus, Ovid is today best known for the Metamorphoses, a 15-book continuous mythological narrative written in the meter of epic, and for collections of love poetry in elegiac couplets, especially the Amores ("Love Affairs") and Ars Amatoria ("The Art of Love").

Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso, 43 BCE –17 CE), born at Sulmo, studied rhetoric and law at Rome. Later he did considerable public service there, and otherwise devoted himself to poetry and to society.