Amores is Ovid's first completed book of poetry, written in elegiac couplets. It was first published in 16 BC in five books, but Ovid, by his own account...
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except Ovid's. Barsby, J. Ovid Amores 1 (Oxford, 1973) pp.16ff. Keith, A. "Corpus Eroticum: Elegiac Poetics and Elegiac Puellae in Ovid's 'Amores'" in Classical...
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Look up amores in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Amores may refer to: Amores (Ovid), the first book by the poet Ovid, published in 5 volumes in 16 BCE...
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Metamorphoses (redirect from Ovid's Metamorphoses)
"Transformations") is a Latin narrative poem from 8 CE by the Roman poet Ovid. It is considered his magnum opus. The poem chronicles the history of the...
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banishment. Ovid was one of the most prolific poets of his time, and before being banished had already composed his most famous poems – Heroides, Amores, Ars...
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Ars Amatoria (redirect from The Art of Love (Ovid))
ancient Roman poet Ovid. It was written in 2 AD. Book one of Ars amatoria was written to show a man how to find a woman. In book two, Ovid shows how to keep...
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transposes the ancient Roman poet Ovid to Nazi Germany. The poem is introduced with a Latin quotation from Ovid's Amores 3.14: "non peccat, quaecumque potest...
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Heroides (category Poetry by Ovid)
that much of what is known at all comes from Ovid's own poetry. One passage in the second book of Ovid's Amores (Am.) has been adduced especially often in...
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Hecatoncheires (section Ovid)
Catullus, Lucretius, Vergil, Ovid and Lucan, Cambridge University Press, 2007. ISBN 9781139461320. Ovid, Amores in Heroides. Amores. Translated by Grant Showerman...
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falling quality in the second. The sentiment is summarized in a line from Ovid's Amores I.1.27 Sex mihi surgat opus numeris, in quinque residat—"Let my work...
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