Ovid
Sign in to savePublius Ovidius Naso (; 20 March 43 BC – AD 17/18), known in English as Ovid ( ), was a Roman poet who lived during the reign of Augustus. He was a younger contemporary of Virgil and Horace, with whom he is often ranked as one of the three canonical poets of Latin literature. The Imperial scholar Quintilian considered him the last of the Latin love elegists. Although Ovid enjoyed enormous popularity during his lifetime, the emperor Augustus exiled him to Tomis, the capital of the newly organised province of Moesia, on the Black Sea, where he remained for the last nine or ten years of his life.
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Ovid was a Roman poet who lived during the reign of Augustus and is considered one of the three greatest poets of Latin literature, alongside Virgil and Horace. Despite his enormous popularity, Augustus exiled him to the remote city of Tomis on the Black Sea, where he spent the last nine or ten years of his life.
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- 43 B.C.
- Died
- 17 A.D. or 18 A.D.
- Works
- 560
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Ovid, born in 43 BC. J.-C. in Sulmone in Italy is a Latin poet who lived during the period of the birth of the Roman Empire. His most famous works are "L'Art d'aimer" and "Les Métamorphoses".
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- Life
- Birth, early life, and marriage
- Literary success
- Exile to Tomis
- Death
- Works
- ''Heroides'' ("The Heroines")
- ''Amores'' ("The Loves")
- ''Medicamina Faciei Femineae'' ("Women's Facial Cosmetics")
- ''Ars Amatoria'' ("The Art of Love")
- ''Remedia Amoris'' ("The Cure for Love")
- ''Metamorphoses'' ("Transformations")
- ''Fasti'' ("The Festivals")
- ''Ibis'' ("The Ibis")
- ''Tristia'' ("Sorrows")
- ''Epistulae ex Ponto'' ("Letters from the Black Sea")
- Lost works
- Spurious works
- ''Consolatio ad Liviam'' ("Consolation to Livia")
- ''Halieutica'' ("On Fishing")
- ''Nux'' ("The Walnut Tree")
- ''Somnium'' ("The Dream")
- Style
- Legacy
- Criticism
- Works, authors, and artists influenced by Ovid
- Literary and artistic
- Retellings, adaptations, and translations of Ovidian works
- Gallery
- See also
- Notes
- References
- Editions
- Further reading
- External links
- Works
- Latin with English translation
- Original Latin only
- English translation only
- Metamorphoses
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Publius Ovidius Naso (; 20 March 43 BC – AD 17/18), known in English as Ovid ( ), was a Roman poet who lived during the reign of Augustus. He was a younger contemporary of Virgil and Horace, with whom he is often ranked as one of the three canonical poets of Latin literature. The Imperial scholar Quintilian considered him the last of the Latin love elegists. Although Ovid enjoyed enormous popularity during his lifetime, the emperor Augustus exiled him to Tomis, the capital of the newly organised province of Moesia, on the Black Sea, where he remained for the last nine or ten years of his life. Ovid himself attributed his banishment to a carmen et error ("poem and a mistake"), but his reluctance to disclose specifics has resulted in much speculation among scholars.
Ovid is most famous for the Metamorphoses, a continuous mythological narrative in fifteen books written in dactylic hexameters. He is also known for works in elegiac couplets such as ("The Art of Love") and Fasti. His poetry was much imitated during Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages, and greatly influenced Western art and literature. The Metamorphoses remains one of the most important sources of classical mythology today.