Orpheus in the Underworld
by Ovid
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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 but was banished in 8 A.D. by an edict of Augustus show more 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
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- Orpheus in the Underworld
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- From there Hymen, clad in his saffron robes, was summoned by Orpheus, and made his way across the vast reaches of the skybto the shore of the Cicones.
(the Mary M. Innes translation) - Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)He loves the waters of the sea, and has the name of diver, because he dives down into them.
(the Mary M. Innes translation)
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