Ovid

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March 22, 0043 in Sulmona, Abruzzo, Italy

died

January 03, 0017

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Publius Ovidius Naso (March 20, 43 BC – 17 AD) was a Roman poet known to the English-speaking world as Ovid who wrote on many topics, including love, abandoned women and mythological transformations. Ranked alongside Virgil and Horace as one of the three canonical poets of Latin literature, Ovid was generally considered a great master of the elegiac couplet. His poetry, much imitated during Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages, had a decisive influence on European art and literature for centuries.

Ovid made use of a wide range of meters: elegiac couplets in the Amores and in his two long didactic poems, the Ars Amatoria and Remedia Amoris; the two fragments of the lost tragedy Medea are in iambic trimeter and anapests, respectively; the Metamo...more

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	Metamorphoses by Ovid, Denis Feeney (Introduction), David Raeburn (Translation) 3.98 avg rating — 11,758 ratings — published 8 — 222 editions	My rating:
	The Art of Love by Ovid, David Malouf (Introduction), James Michie (Translator) 3.93 avg rating — 797 ratings — published -1 — 80 editions	My rating:
	Tales from Ovid: 24 Passages from the Metamorphoses by Ovid (Author), Ted Hughes (Translator) 4.17 avg rating — 551 ratings — published 1997 — 8 editions	My rating:
	The Erotic Poems by Ovid, Peter Green (Translator) 4.15 avg rating — 330 ratings — published 1983 — 6 editions	My rating:
	Heroides by Ovid, Harold Isbell (Translator) 4.11 avg rating — 229 ratings — published -16 — 29 editions	My rating:
	Ovid's Metamorphoses, Books 1-5 by Ovid, William Scovil Anderson (Editor) 4.29 avg rating — 128 ratings — published 1978 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Ovid III: Metamorphoses: Volume I, Books I-VIII (Loeb Classical Library #42) by Ovid, Frank Justus Miller (Translator) 4.41 avg rating — 111 ratings — published 1977 — 7 editions	My rating:
	Fasti by Ovid, Anthony J. Boyle (Editor), Roger D. Woodward (Editor) 3.84 avg rating — 87 ratings — published 15 — 28 editions	My rating:
	The Poems of Exile: Tristia and the Black Sea Letters, with a New Foreword by Ovid, Peter Green (Translator) 3.98 avg rating — 80 ratings — published 1924 — 15 editions	My rating:
	Ovid in Love by Ovid, John Ward (Illustrator), Guy Lee (Translator) 4.23 avg rating — 44 ratings — published 1961 — 2 editions	My rating:

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“Chance is always powerful. Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be a fish.”
― Ovid, Heroides

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“Dripping water hollows out stone, not through force but through persistence.”
― Ovid

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“Fas est ab hoste doceri.
One should learn even from one's enemies.”
― Ovid, Metamorphoses

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