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Publius Ovidius Naso (20 March 43 BC--AD 17/18), known as Ovid. Born of an equestrian family in Sulmo, Ovid was educated in rhetoric in Rome but gave it up for poetry. He counted Horace and Propertius among his friends and wrote an elegy on the death of Tibullus. He became the leading poet of Rome show more but was banished in 8 A.D. by an edict of Augustus to remote Tomis on the Black Sea because of a poem and an indiscretion. Miserable in provincial exile, he died there ten years later. His brilliant, witty, fertile elegiac poems include Amores (Loves), Heroides (Heroines), and Ars Amatoris (The Art of Love), but he is perhaps best known for the Metamorphoses, a marvelously imaginative compendium of Greek mythology where every story alludes to a change in shape. Ovid was admired and imitated throughout the Middle Ages and Renaissance. Chaucer, Spenser, Shakespeare, and Jonson knew his works well. His mastery of form, gift for narration, and amusing urbanity are irresistible. (Bowker Author Biography) show less

Series

Works by Ovid

Metamorphoses [in translation] (0008) 13,273 copies
Ars amatoria [in translation] (0001) 1,663 copies
Heroides [in translation] (1928) — Author — 567 copies
Fasti [in translation] (0008) — Author — 442 copies
Metamorphoses : Books 1-8 [bilingual Latin English] (1916) — Author — 340 copies
Metamorphoses : Book 6-15 [bilingual Latin English] (0004) — Author — 247 copies
Amores [in translation] (0001) — Writer; Author — 237 copies
The fall of Icarus (1600) 190 copies
Tristia [in translation] (1924) 155 copies
Metamorphoses 6-10 (1972) 132 copies
Orpheus in the Underworld (0008) 112 copies
Ovid Ars Amatoria I (1977) 92 copies
Selections from Ovid (1969) 74 copies
The Serpent's Teeth (2006) 73 copies
Ovid: Selected Poems (1971) 68 copies
Tristia + Epistulae ex ponto [in translation] (2008) — Author — 63 copies
Complete works (1992) 45 copies
Ovid: Heroides XVI-XXI (1996) 37 copies
Ovid : Metamorphoses : Book 8 (1970) — Writer — 36 copies
Metamorphoses [in Latin] (2004) — Author — 36 copies
Ovid: Fasti Book IV (1998) 35 copies
Ovid : Metamorphoses : Book I (1988) — Writer; Writer — 30 copies
Selected works (1939) 27 copies
Metamorphoses : Books 1-7 (0008) 19 copies
Metamorphoseon: Bk. 1 (Pitt Press Series Latin) (1953) — Writer — 19 copies
Shakespeare's Ovid (1961) — Author — 18 copies
Ovid : Amores : Book II (1975) — Writer — 16 copies
Tusculum : Ovid : Metamorphosen (1999) — Writer — 16 copies
An Ovid Reader (1969) 15 copies
Metamorphoses : Books 1-4 (1985) 15 copies
Ovid : Metamorphoses XI (1972) 14 copies
The Essential Metamorphoses (2011) 12 copies
Ovid: Fasti Book III (1936) 11 copies
Ovid Fasti II (1985) 11 copies
Ovid's Amores : Book one : A commentary (2011) — Writer — 10 copies
Ovid : Amores : Book 1 (1973) — Writer — 10 copies
A Commentary on Ovid, Tristia, Book 2 (2010) — Author — 10 copies
Ars Amatoria: Selections (1971) 9 copies
O Livro dos Dragões (2010) 8 copies
Lettres d'amour (1999) 8 copies
25 métamorphoses d'Ovide (1974) 7 copies
Les metamorfosis. III (2012) 7 copies
Fasti [in Latin] (2018) 7 copies
Ovid : Amores III : a selection: 2, 4, 5, 14 (2011) — Writer — 7 copies
Metamorphoses [bilingual Latin English] (1960) — Author — 6 copies
Ibis (1996) 6 copies
Les metamorfosis. II (2012) 6 copies
Die erotische Dichtungen (1958) — Author — 6 copies
Ovid 5 copies
Metamorfosis : II (2019) 5 copies
Fasti (0008) 5 copies
Zarzuela castiza (1901) 5 copies
Textos mitológicos (2016) 4 copies
Metamorfosis VI-X (2019) 4 copies
LES METAMORFOSIS I VI (1994) 4 copies
I cosmetici (1994) 4 copies
Heldinnenbrieven (2019) 4 copies
Metamorfosi. Vol. II (2000) 4 copies
Cartas de las hero?nas (2018) 4 copies
Le metamorfosi. Vol. II (1994) 3 copies
Ausgewählte Dichtungen (1971) 3 copies
The Silver Book of Hope (1999) 3 copies
Metamorphoses: Selections (1968) 3 copies
Ovid's epistles 3 copies
21 ELEGIE D`AMORE (1997) 3 copies
v.1: Le metamorfosi (1991) 3 copies
O lásce a milování (1990) 3 copies
Karadeniz'den Mektuplar (2015) 3 copies
Proměny : výbor (2001) 3 copies
Amores. Arte De Amar (2008) 2 copies
Hulpboekje 2 copies
Ibis + Ex Ponto + Tristia — Author — 2 copies
El arte de amar 2 copies
Ovid : Auswahl aus seinen Werken (1997) — Writer — 2 copies
Métamorphoses, livre X (1999) 2 copies
Przemiany 2 copies
Tristes (1966) 2 copies
Metamorfosis (2016) 2 copies
L'Amore 2 copies
Le metamorfosi 2 copies
L'exil et le salut (1999) 2 copies
Gli amori (1997) 2 copies
The Last Poems of Ovid (2010) 2 copies
Umění milovat (2002) 2 copies
Choix de Métamorphoses (1856) 2 copies
Versi e precetti d'amore (1998) 2 copies
Heroides 2 copies
Listy heroin (1997) 2 copies
Žalozpěvy 2 copies
Ovid für Liebende (2011) 2 copies
Kalendergedichten (2022) 2 copies
Contre Ibis 2 copies
Metamorfózy I-VIII (2012) 2 copies
Metamorphoses 2 copies
Carmina Latīna 2 copies
Metamorfózy IX-XV (2012) 2 copies
Dönüsümler (1994) 2 copies
Ibis: Een verwensing (2020) 2 copies
Ovid für Verliebte (1999) 2 copies
Ovids Metamorphosen (1990) 2 copies
Die Kunst der Liebe (2011) 2 copies
Las tristes (2004) 2 copies
Los amores (2004) 2 copies
Nowele Rzymskie — Contributor — 1 copy
FASTOS II (1991) 1 copy
PÒNTIQUES I (1984) 1 copy
Ummyndanir (2009) 1 copy
Héroïdes 1 copy
Amores 1 copy
PÒNTIQUES II (1985) 1 copy
FASTOS I (1991) 1 copy
Promy 1 copy
Metamorfosi 1 copy
Przemiany 1 copy
Arte de amar (2001) 1 copy
Ifasti 1 copy
Tristium 1 copy
The Amores 1 copy
Las Heroidas 1 copy
Ibis 1 copy
Opere vol. I 1 copy
L'arte amatoria (1995) 1 copy
Pónticas (2022) 1 copy
De l'amour (2016) 1 copy
Les Amours par Ovide (1968) 1 copy
Wandlungen 1 copy
Los Tristes 1 copy
Le Metamorfosi e I Fasti - — Author — 1 copy
Ovid Fasti: Book 5 (1996) 1 copy
Ibis (Latin Edition) (2010) 1 copy
Ovid : Metamorphoses : Book I — Writer — 1 copy
An elegy 1 copy
Carmina 1 copy
Ovid, Volume 2 (1915) 1 copy
Heroides I-X 1 copy
Ovid Nux 1 copy
Pygmalion 1 copy
Metamorphoses : Books 1-9 [in translation] (1968) — Author — 1 copy
Metamorp 1 copy
Umenie milovať (1996) 1 copy
Przemiany 1 copy
Filemone e Bauci (2022) 1 copy
Ovid (1999) 1 copy
4: ‰Fasti e frammenti (1999) 1 copy
Lásky 1 copy
Proměny 1 copy
Aşk Sanatı 1 copy
Amorum Libri Tres (1977) 1 copy
Obras completas (2005) 1 copy
Amors 1 copy
Metamorfosis XI-XV (2020) 1 copy
Pòntiques (1984) 1 copy
Amors 1 copy
Fastos (1991) 1 copy
021. Metamorfoses (2007) 1 copy
Arte de amar 1 copy
Tristezas 1 copy
Tristes 1 copy

Associated Works

Tales from Ovid (1997) 1,114 copies
The Canterbury Tales [Norton Critical Edition, 2nd ed.] (2005) — Contributor — 632 copies
The Complete Poems and Translations (1971) — Contributor, some editions — 264 copies
The Penguin Book of Homosexual Verse (1983) — Contributor — 237 copies
The Columbia Anthology of Gay Literature (1998) — Contributor — 159 copies
A Lycanthropy Reader: Werewolves in Western Culture (1986) — Contributor — 158 copies
The Penguin Book of Dragons (2021) — Contributor — 117 copies
The Utopia Reader (1999) — Contributor — 113 copies
Roman Readings (1958) — Author — 67 copies
Virgil and Other Latin Poets (1923) — Contributor — 37 copies
Springs of Roman Wisdom (1975) — Contributor — 29 copies
Komt een Griek bij de dokter humor in de oudheid (2007) — Contributor — 25 copies
The Conjure Stories [Norton Critical Edition] (2011) — Contributor — 21 copies
The Ribald Reader: 2000 Years of Lusty Love and Laughter (1906) — Contributor — 18 copies
Loss: An Anthology (1997) — Contributor — 18 copies
Men and Women: The Poetry of Love (1970) — Contributor — 8 copies
Sappho: A New Rendering (1920) 7 copies
To Shiver the Sky (2020) — Composer — 4 copies
The Omnibus of Pleasure : A Pleasure Primer (1943) — Contributor — 2 copies
Ovid's Elegies — Author — 1 copy
Métamorphoses [2014 film] (2014) — Original poems — 1 copy

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Common Knowledge

Legal name
Ovidius Naso, Publius
Other names
Ovid
Birthdate
0043-03-20 BCE
Date of death
0017 CE
Gender
male
Nationality
Roman Empire
Country (for map)
Italy
Places of residence
Sulmo, Italy
Tomis, Romania (Constanta)
Rome, Italy
Occupations
poet

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GROUP READ Mythology March: Ovid's Metamorphoses in 75 Books Challenge for 2018 (September 2020)

Reviews

Rereading after decades.
Phew, mostly rape, murder, and incest. In ten-beat, unrhymed lines.
Then at the end he throws in Mr. Vegetarian, Pythagoras, and the deification of Julius Caesar. The metamorphoses in these are a bit of a stretch. Pythagoras saying that all things change into other things, and a man becoming a god to justify the deification of his son. Augustus is such a swell guy, his dad must be a god! Make it so, Mr. Crusher.
The remarkable things, one of which I noticed as a 14 year old, was the trans story. And it turns out there are two. Both trans-men, of course. And the dual-gender of Hermaphroditus. Neither of these very trans- or bi-friendly, but notable all the same.
The Story of Salmacis (dual gender, but the fountain waters thenceforth to weaken males)
The Story of Iphis and Ianthe (daughter passed off as a son set to marry another woman transformed on their wedding day)
The Story of Caeneus (woman tired of rape asking her rapist to no longer be a woman so to never suffer that again - rapist, as usual, was a god who could arrange this - and the trans-man then becomes a great warrior)
People turning into plants, animals, and stone eventually gets tiresome. But it's in the title.
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marfita | 100 other reviews | Feb 26, 2024 |
Edición y traducción de Vicente López Soto
 
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jose.calero.gt | 100 other reviews | Jan 12, 2024 |
Oh my. Unbearable in Russian. Mostly due to its meter and language, probably imitating the original. With all due respect I thought what's the worth of trudging on? I'm not a PhD student in Ancient Literature after all and the plot is not gripping, unlike many other primary sources.
 
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Den85 | 100 other reviews | Jan 3, 2024 |
Good, fun reading, though the modern translation is just a bit over the top.
 
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judeprufrock | 4 other reviews | Jul 4, 2023 |

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