Art of love ; Cosmetics ; Remedies for love ; Ibis ; Walnut-tree ; Sea fishing ; Consolation / Ovid ; with an English translation by J.H. Mozley.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ovid, 43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D., author.

Ovid, 43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D., Remedies for love., author.

Contributor:

Goold, G. P., editor, translator.

Mozley, J. H. (John Henry), translator.

Series:

Loeb classical library ; 232.

Loeb Classical Library ; 232

Language:

English

Latin

Subjects (All):

Incantations.

Genre:

Poetry.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Edition:

New edition / revised by G.P. Goold.

Other Title:

Digital Loeb.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, 2014.

Language Note:

Text in Latin with English translation on facing pages.

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

text file

Summary:

In the didactic poetry of Face Cosmetics, Art of Love, and Remedies for Love, Ovid (43 BCE-17 CE) demonstrates abstrusity and wit. His Ibis is an elegiac curse-poem. Nux, Halieutica, and Consolatio ad Liviam are poems now judged not to be by Ovid. 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 otherwise devoted himself to poetry and to society. Famous at first, he offended the emperor Augustus by his Ars Amatoria, and was banished because of this work and some other reason unknown to us, and dwelt in the cold and primitive town of Tomis on 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 treatment 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 similar Epistulae ex Ponto. Poetry came naturally to Ovid, who at his best is lively, graphic and lucid. The Loeb Classical Library edition of Ovid is in six volumes.

Notes:

Includes indexes.

Description based on print version record.

Contains:

Ovid, 43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D. Cosmetics.

Ovid, 43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D., Remedies for love., author.

Ovid, 43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D. Ibis.

Nux.

Ovid, 43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D. Sea fishing.

Ovid, 43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D. Consolation.

Other Format:

Print version: Ovid, 43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D. Art of love. Cosmetics. Remedies for love. Ibis. Walnut-tree. Sea fishing. Consolation.

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