He continued writing poetry-a kindly man, leading a temperate life-and died in exile. He 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. Famous at first, he offended the emperor Augustus with his Ars Amatoria ( Art of Love). Later he did considerable public service there, and otherwise devoted himself to poetry and to society. Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso, 43 BCE–17 CE), born at Sulmo, studied rhetoric and law at Rome. To email * Your name * Your email * Comment Please tick the box below *The digital Loeb Classical Library extends the founding mission of James Loeb with an interconnected, fully searchable, perpetually growing virtual library of all that is important in Greek and Latin literature. Poetry which is at once simple and sophisticated, heartfelt and yet also full of irony and literary resonance.
X) are feminists before feminism, royal ladies who are slaves to their passion – these women are given a voice by Ovid in
Stories and express their feelings in poetry of great power and psychological subtlety. The heroines of the Heroides are women in love who can do nothing but write sad verse letters to their faithless lovers across the sea. Here from the Latin, and also Heroides IV. A detailed introductionĮxplains points of historical and stylistic interest, encompassing the full text of both poems, including sections omitted Limited number of poems, this edition is designed to be manageable for students reading the text for the first time whileĪlso perfectly encapsulating the interest of Ovid’s other work and inspiring further study of it. Heroides VI, lines 1–100 and 127–64, and Heroides X, lines 1–76 and 119–50 are included as Latin text with an accompanying commentary and vocabulary. This is the first intermediate-student edition of a selection from Ovid’s Heroides.
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