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Publius Ovidius Naso ( Latin: [ˈpuːbliʊs ɔˈwɪdiʊs ˈnaːso (ː)]; 20 March 43 BC – AD 17/18), known in English as Ovid ( / ˈɒvɪd / OV-id ), [2] [3] 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.
Ovid - Poetry, Metamorphoses, Fasti: Ovid’s extant poems are all written in elegiac couplets except for the Metamorphoses. His first poems, the Amores (The Loves), were published at intervals, beginning about 20 bce, in five books. They form a series of short poems depicting the various phases of a love affair with a woman called Corinna.
Publius Ovidius Naso, known as Ovid, was born in Sulmo, Italy, on March 20, 43 BCE. Considered one of the most influential poets in the Western literary tradition, Ovid wrote works including Heroides (“Heroines”), Amores (“Loves”), Ars amatoria (“The Art of Love”), Metamorphoses, and Tristia…
Metamorphoses, poem in 15 books, written in Latin about 8 ce by Ovid. It is written in hexameter verse. The work is a collection of mythological and legendary stories, many taken from Greek sources, in which transformation (metamorphosis) plays a role, however minor.
2 days ago · The title page of this 1626 edition of Ovid’s Metamorphoses from the Folger collection depicts gods, goddesses, and other notable figures that appear in the Roman poet’s masterwork. Ovid’s Metamorphoses has influenced writers and artists throughout history (including Shakespeare) and is the source material for Mary Zimmerman’s Tony ...
Read poems by this poet. On March 20, 43 BC, Publius Ovidius Naso, better known to modern readers as Ovid, was born at Sulmo, 90 miles from Rome. Ovid’s father, who was a respected member of the equestrian order, expected Ovid to become a lawyer and official and had him schooled extensively for that purpose.
Born in 43 bce, Ovid first made his name at Rome as a playful and experimental love poet, in the Amores, the epistolary Heroides, and the didactic Ars Amatoria and Remedia Amoris; by about 2 ce, he was able to claim that “elegy owes as much to me as epic does to Virgil.”
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