Amores + Heroides [bilingual Latin English]
by Ovid
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In Heroides, Ovid (43 BCE-17CE) allows legendary women to narrate their memories and express their emotions in verse letters to absent husbands and lovers. Ovid's Amores are three books of elegies ostensibly about the poet's love affair with his mistress Corinna.Tags
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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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- Canonical title
- Amores + Heroides [bilingual Latin English]
- Original publication date
- 1921 (Loeb translation) (Loeb translation)
- People/Characters
- Publius Ovidius Naso; Ovid; Acontius (who fell in love with Cydippe); Aeacides; Aeneas; Aurora (show all 36); Boreas (also Aquilo); Cydippe; Deianeira; Diana; Dido; Graius; Hector; Helen of Troy; Hymenaeus; Hypsipyle; Juno; Jupiter; Medea; Menelaus; Notus; Oenone; Paris of Troy; Penelope; Phyllis; Priam; Sappho; Theseus; Venus; Corinna; Cupid; Eurus (the East Wind); Io; Musa; Apollo; Cypassis
- Important places
- Abydos on the Hellespont; Colchis; Lacedemonia; Phrygia; Troy; Sulmo, Italy
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- A WORD FROM THE TRANSLATOR
The complete conveyance of intellectual content, form, and emotional content from one language to another, above all in the case of poetry, is impossible.
OVID'S LIFE
Publius Ovidius Naso was born at Sulmo, a city about ninety miles east of Rome, in the country of the Paeligni, on March 20, 43 B.C., the year of the second triumvirate, composed of Augustus, Antony, and Lepidu... (show all)s, and the year of the proscription and death of the Ciceros.
Hanc tua Penelope lento tibi mittit, Ulixe --
nil mihi rescribas tu tamen; ipse veni! - Original language
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