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In His Most Influential Work, The Metamorphoses, Ovid (43 Bce-17 Ce) Weaves A Hexametric Whole From A Huge Range Of Myths, Which Are Connected By The Theme Of Change And Ingeniously Linked As The Narrative Proceeds From Earliest Creation To Transformation In Ovid's Own Time. Ovid (publius Ovidius Naso, 43 Bce-17 Ce), Born At Sulmo, Studied Rhetoric And Law At Rome. Later He Did Considerable Public Service There, And Otherwise Devoted Himself To Poetry And To Society. Famous At First, He Offended The Emperor Augustus By His Ars Amatoria, And Was Banished Because Of This Work And Some Other Reason Unknown To Us, And Dwelt In The Cold And Primitive Town Of Tomis On The Black Sea. He Continued Writing Poetry, A Kindly Man, Leading A Temperate Life. He Died In Exile. Ovid's Main Surviving Works Are The Metamorphoses, A Source Of Inspiration To Artists And Poets Including Chaucer And Shakespeare; The Fasti, A Poetic Treatment Of The Roman Year Of Which Ovid Finished Only Half; The Amores, Love Poems; The Ars Amatoria, Not Moral But Clever And In Parts Beautiful; Heroides, Fictitious Love Letters By Legendary Women To Absent Husbands; And The Dismal Works Written In Exile: The Tristia, Ap

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Author

Ovid; F. J. Miller (transl.)

Publisher

William Heinemann Ltd.; Harvard University Press

Published

1971

Language

EN

ISBN

9780434990436

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, History, Poetry

Rating

4.4 / 5 (593 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14