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Portrait of the poet Ovid
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'sAeneid 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.
a poem in Getic, the language of Dacia where Ovid was exiled, not extant (and possibly fictional)
Nux ('The Walnut Tree') - generally considered spurious
Consolatio ad Liviam ('Consolation to Livia') - generally considered spurious
Haleutica ('On Fishing') - generally considered spurious, a poem that some have identified with the otherwise lost poem of the same name written by Ovid.
Works inspired by Ovid
(1994): After Ovid: New Metamorphoses edited by Michael Hofmann and James Lasdun is an anthology of contemporary poetry reenvisioning Ovid's Metamorphoses
(1997): Tales from Ovid by Ted Hughes is a modern poetic translation of twenty four passages from Metamorphoses
(2002) An adaptation of Metamorphoses by Mary Zimmerman appeared on Broadway's Circle on the Square Theater, which featured an onstage pool [1] (http://www.talkinbroadway.com/world/Metamorphoses.html)
See also
Metamorphoses for external links specific to that work.
Perseus/Tufts: P. Ovidius Naso (http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/perscoll?.submit=Change&collection=Perseus%3Acollection%3AGreco-Roman&type=text&lang=Any&lookup=Ovidius)Amores, Ars Amatoria, Heroides (on this site called Epistulae), Metamorphoses, Remedia Amoris. Enhanced brower. Not downloadable.
The Metamorphoses of Publius Ovidius Naso (http://fax.libs.uga.edu/PA6519xM3xB8/); elucidated by an analysis and explanation of the fables, together with English notes, historical, mythological and critical, and illustrated by pictorial embellishments: with a dictionary, giving the meaning of all the words with critical exactness. By Nathan Covington Brooks. Publisher: New York, A. S. Barnes & co.; Cincinnati, H. W. Derby & co., 1857
Original Latin only
Latin Library: Ovid (http://www.thelatinlibrary.com/ovid.html)Amores, Ars Amatoria, Epistulae ex Ponto, Fasti, Heroides, Ibis, Metamorphoses, Remedia Amoris, Tristia.
Gutenberg Project: Fasti (http://www.gutenberg.net/etext/8738) With introduction and extensive notes in English by Thomas Keightley. Plain text version.
English translation only
New translations by A. S. Kline (http://www.tonykline.co.uk)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.
Ovidius esordì ventenne nel circolo di Messalla con un canzoniere amoroso in distici, Amori (Amores, 20-) in cinque libri subito dopo rimaneggiati in tre libri: quest'ultima edizione è quella che ci è pervenuta.
Ovidius riuscì a fare di questa faccenda un evento mitico, tra il patetico e lo stravolgente.
Ovidius è poeta della società mondana: di qui l'edonismo letterario, l'eleganza, il virtuosismo tecnico.
Het jaar waarin Ovidius geboren werd, duidt hij aan in regel 6.
Ovidius heeft die burgeroorlogen echter niet of nauwelijks bewust meegemaakt en daarin verschilt hij van de dichters uit de generatie vóór hem als Vergilius en Horatius, die in hun werk bij herhaling aan deze oorlogen herinneren.
Ovidius roept met een groot inlevingsvermogen en een virtuoze vormgeving een aantal van deze vrouwenfiguren in deze brieven voor ons op.
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