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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.
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.
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 ...
It is pseudepigraphically signed "Ovidius", and in its time was attributed to the classical Latin poet Ovid. It consists of three books of hexameters, and was quoted by Roger Bacon. [1] In its slight plot, the aging Ovid is duped by a go-between, and renounces love affairs. [2] Its interest to modern readers lies in the discursive padding of ...
Medicamina Faciei Femineae (Cosmetics for the Female Face, also known as The Art of Beauty) is a didactic poem written in elegiac couplets by the Roman poet Ovid. In the hundred extant verses, Ovid defends the use of cosmetics by Roman women and provides five recipes for facial treatments. Other writers at the time condemned women's usage of ...
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.
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]
Omnia mutantur, nihil interit ("everything changes, nothing perishes"), by Ovid in his Metamorphoses, and Omnia mutantur nos et mutamur in illis ("all things change, and we change with them"), a traditional saying, found in various forms, notably Tempora mutantur nos et mutamur in illis .