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Ovid Banished from Rome (1838) by J. M. W. Turner. The Tristia ("Sad things" or "Sorrows") is a collection of poems written in elegiac couplets by the Augustan poet Ovid during the first three years following his banishment from Rome to Tomis on the Black Sea in AD 8.
The carmen to which Ovid referred has been identified as Ars Amatoria (The Art of Love), written some seven years before his exile. [18] However, Ovid expresses surprise that only he has been exiled for such a reason since many others also wrote obscene verse, [19] seemingly with the emperor's approval. [20]
Remedia Amoris (also known as Love's Remedy or The Cure for Love; c. 2 AD) is an 814-line poem in Latin by Roman poet Ovid.In this companion poem to The Art of Love, Ovid offers advice and strategies to avoid being hurt by love feelings, or to fall out of love, with a stoic overtone.
Book 1 contains 11 poems; the first piece is an address by Ovid to his book about how it should act when it arrives in Rome. Poem 3 describes his final night in Rome, poems 2 and 10 Ovid's voyage to Tomis, 8 the betrayal of a friend, and 5 and 6 the loyalty of his friends and wife.
Epistulae ex Ponto (Letters from the Black Sea) is a work of Ovid, in four books. [1] It is a collection of letters describing Ovid's exile in Tomis (modern-day Constanța) written in elegiac couplets and addressed to his wife and friends.
Ovid's jeu d'esprit, the Ars Amatoria, was playfully set in a framework of Alexandrian didacticism. It was mildly amusing in his day to assume that rules could be laid down, by the use of which any one could become 'a master of the art of love,' to use the phrase of Diotima in Plato's Symposium. This work was well known to clerks in its Latin ...
Jean de la Fontaine's poem follows Ovid closely. John Dryden translated Ovid's poem in 1693. Jonathan Swift wrote a poem on the subject of Baucis and Philemon in 1709. Joseph Haydn wrote a marionette opera Philemon und Baucis, oder Jupiters Reise auf die Erde in 1773. Baucis and Philemon are characters in the fifth act of Goethe's Faust II (1832).
Front matter of Boswell's copy of the 1732 edition of the Heroides, edited by Peter Burmann. Note the title Heroides sive Epistolae, The Heroides or the Letters.. The Heroides (The Heroines), [1] or Epistulae Heroidum (Letters of Heroines), is a collection of fifteen epistolary poems composed by Ovid in Latin elegiac couplets and presented as though written by a selection of aggrieved heroines ...