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Ovid

20 March 43 BCE - 17 or 18 CE)

Ovid, was a Roman poet who is best known as the author of the Heroides, Amores, and Ars Amatoria, three major collections of erotic poetry, the Metamorphoses a mythological hexameter poem, the Fasti, about the Roman calendar, and the Tristia and Epistulae ex Ponto, two collections of poems written in exile on the Black Sea. Ovid was also the author of several smaller pieces, the Remedia Amoris, the Medicamina Faciei Femineae, and the Ibis, a long curse-poem. He also authored a lost tragedy, Medea. He is considered a master of the elegiac couplet, and is traditionally ranked alongside Virgil and Horace as one of the three canonic poets of Latin literature. The scholar Quintilian considered him the last of the canonical Latin love elegists.[1] His poetry, much imitated during Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages, decisively influenced European art and literature and remains as one of the most important sources of classical mythology.[2] (Source.)

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Subjects
Poetry, Latin Epistolary poetry, Latin Didactic poetry, Latin Love poetry, Exiles, Latin Erotic poetry, Accessible book, Translations into Italian, Latin Poets, Seduction, Correspondence, Homes and haunts, Latin American literature, Medieval and modern Latin literature, Translations into French, Fasts and feasts, Calendar, Translations into Spanish, Translations into English, Separation (Psychology), Latin Elegiac poetry, Women, Latin poetry, Mythology, Translations into German
Places
Rome, Constanța, Romania, Constanța (Romania), Black Sea
People
Ovid (43 B.C.-17 or 18 A.D), Ambrosius Metzger, William Shakespeare (1564-1616), Geoffrey Chaucer (1340?-1400), Geoffrey Chaucer (d. 1400), Barthélemy Aneau (d. 1561), Charles William Dunmore, Garth Sir Samuel (1661-1719), Johann Bernhard Basedow (1724-1790), John Brinsley (fl. 1633), Ludovico Ariosto (1474-1533), Ovid (B.C.-17 or 18 A.D), Publius Ovidus Naso, Virgil
Time
Early works to 1800, 16th century, 18th century

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Alternative names

  • Publius Ovidius Naso
  • Ovidio
  • Ovide
  • P. Ovidius Naso
  • Humphries, Rolfe Translator Ovid
  • Ovid/Hall
  • Ovid/Richmond
  • Publius Ovidus Naso
  • Publio Ovidio Nasón
  • Publio ( Ovidio Nasón
  • Publius Ovidius Naso Ovide

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April 1, 2008 Created by an anonymous user initial import