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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Poetry, Classical Mythology, Mythology, Latin Fables, Metamorphosis, Translations into English, Latin Love poetry, Latin Epistolary poetry, Latin Didactic poetry, Love-letters, Love poetry, Latin, Poetry (poetic works by one author), Translations into Italian, Separation (Psychology), Exiles, Latin Erotic poetry, Seduction, Ovid, 43 b.c.-17 a.d. or 18 a.d., Latin Elegiac poetry, Latin Poets, Homes and haunts, Latin poetry, Correspondence, Translations into German, Latin languagePlaces
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Ovid (43 B.C.-17 or 18 A.D), Ovid (43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D), William Shakespeare (1564-1616), Ambrosius Metzger, Barthélemy Aneau (d. 1561), Ludovico Ariosto (1474-1533), Virgil, Abram, Alfred Doolittle, Alonso, Antonio, Archie, Ariel, Balthasar, Benvolio, Caliban, Ceres, Charles William Dunmore, Colonel Pickering, Duncan Ross, Eliza Doolittle, Escalus, Ferdinand, Freddy Eynsford Hill, Friar JohnTime
16th century, 1890, 18th century, 1912, 20th century, Dawn of time-Roman antiquity, Early modern, 1500-1700, Early works to 1800ID Numbers
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- Publius Ovidius Naso
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- P. Ovidius Naso
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