Publius Ovidius Naso



 

Publius Ovidius Naso

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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 ...more




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Metamorphoses Metamorphoses (Penguin Classics)
by Publius Ovidius Naso
avg rating 4.11 — 1226 ratings — published 2003
74 editions
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The Art of Love The Art of Love (Modern Library Classics)
by Publius Ovidius Naso
avg rating 4.08 — 112 ratings — published 2002
20 editions
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The Erotic Poems The Erotic Poems (Penguin Classics)
by Publius Ovidius Naso
avg rating 3.99 — 87 ratings — published 1983
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Heroides Heroides (Penguin Classics)
by Publius Ovidius Naso
avg rating 4.00 — 31 ratings — published 1990
4 editions
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Ovid III: Metamorphoses, Books... Ovid III: Metamorphoses, Books I-VIII (Loeb Classical Library #42)
by Publius Ovidius Naso, Frank Justus Miller
avg rating 4.48 — 25 ratings — published 1977
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Amores, Medicamina Faciei Femi... Amores, Medicamina Faciei Femineae, Ars Amatoria, Remedia Amoris (Oxford Classical Texts)
by Publius Ovidius Naso
avg rating 4.36 — 22 ratings — published 1994
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Fasti Fasti (Penguin Classics)
by Publius Ovidius Naso
avg rating 4.17 — 18 ratings — published 2000
3 editions
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Ovid in Love: Ovid's Amores Ovid in Love: Ovid's Amores (Hardcover)
by Publius Ovidius Naso
avg rating 4.25 — 17 ratings — published 2000
2 editions
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Heroides. Amores Heroides. Amores (Loeb Classical Library)
by Publius Ovidius Naso, G. P. Goold
avg rating 4.25 — 12 ratings — published 1914
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Ovid: The Art of Love and Othe... Ovid: The Art of Love and Other Poems (Loeb Classical Library No. 232)
by Publius Ovidius Naso
avg rating 4.00 — 12 ratings — published 1979
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quotes by Publius Ovidius Naso

1127
"Fas est ab hoste doceri.
One should learn even from one's enemies.
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Publius Ovidius Naso (Metamorphoses (Penguin Classics))
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1127
"I grabbed a pile of dust, and holding it up, foolishly asked for as many birthdays as the grains of dust, I forgot to ask that they be years of youth. "
Publius Ovidius Naso (Metamorphoses)
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1127
"We are ever striving after what is forbidden, and coveting what is denied us."
Publius Ovidius Naso
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