Ovid : selected poems
Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso) was born at Sulmo in central Italy in 43 BC. After holding some minor judicial positions, he abandoned a career in public service for writing, and was soon acknowledged as the leading Roman poet of his generation. But in AD 8 he was suddenly banished by the Emperor August...
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| Language: | English Latin |
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New York :
Barnes & Noble Books,
2003, c1997.
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| Series: | The poetry library
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Table of Contents:
- From Amores ('Loves')
- from Heroides ('Epistles of the Heroines')
- from Ars amatoria ('The Art of Love')
- from Fasti ('The Calendar')
- from Metamorphoses ('Transformations')
- from Tristia ('Sorrows')
- Glossary of mythological and historical Persons and places
- Chronology of Ovid's life and times.
