Ovid: Heroides and Amores (Loeb Classical Library) (English and Latin Edition)

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Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso, 43 BCE–17 CE), born at Sulmo, studied rhetoric and law at Rome. Later he did considerable public service there, and another way devoted himself to poetry and to society. Famous in the beginning, he angry the emperor Augustus by his Ars Amatoria, and used to be banished on account of this work and a few other reason unknown to us, and dwelt in the cold and primitive town of Tomis at the Black Sea. He continued writing poetry, a kindly man, leading a temperate life. He died in exile.

Ovid’s main surviving works are the Metamorphoses, a source of inspiration to artists and poets including Chaucer and Shakespeare; the Fasti, a poetic remedy of the Roman year of which Ovid finished only half; the Amores, love poems; the Ars Amatoria, not moral but clever and in parts beautiful; Heroides, fictitious love letters by legendary women to absent husbands; and the dismal works written in exile: the Tristia, appeals to persons including his wife and also the emperor; and an identical Epistulae ex Ponto. Poetry came naturally to Ovid, who at his best is energetic, graphic and lucid.

The Loeb Classical Library edition of Ovid is in six volumes.

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