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Ovid
| born |
March 26, 0043
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| died |
January 07, 0017 |
| gender |
male |
| place of birth |
Sulmona, Abruzzo, Italy |
| genre |
Poetry, , |
about this author
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 is 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; and the "Metamorphoses" was written in dactylic hexameter. (Dactylic hexameter is the meter of Virgil's Aeneid and of Homer's epics.)
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