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Book Elegiac Poems of Ovid

Download or read book Elegiac Poems of Ovid written by Ovid and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Love Poems

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  • Author : Ovid
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2015-02-15
  • ISBN : 9781507893227
  • Pages : 268 pages

Download or read book The Love Poems written by Ovid and published by . This book was released on 2015-02-15 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Ovid s Early Poetry

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  • Author : Thea S. Thorsen
  • Publisher : Cambridge University Press
  • Release : 2014-12-11
  • ISBN : 1316165124
  • Pages : 237 pages

Download or read book Ovid s Early Poetry written by Thea S. Thorsen and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014-12-11 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ovid is one of the greatest poets in the Classical tradition and Western literature. This book represents the most comprehensive study to date of his early output as a unified literary production. Firstly, the book proposes new ways of organising this part of Ovid's poetic career, the chronology of which is notoriously difficult to establish. Next, by combining textual criticism with issues relating to manuscript transmission, the book decisively counters arguments levelled against the authenticity of Heroides 15, which consequently allows for a revaluation of Ovid's early output. Furthermore, by focusing on the literary device of allusion, the book stresses the importance of Ovid's single Heroides 1-15 in relationship with his Amores I-III, Ars amatoria I-III and Remedia amoris. Finally, the book identifies three kinds of Ovidian poetics that are found in his early poetry and that point towards the works of myth and exile that followed in his later career.

Book The Love Poems

Download or read book The Love Poems written by Ovid and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1998 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Translations of Ovid's love poems.

Book The Offense of Love

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  • Author : Ovid
  • Publisher : University of Wisconsin Pres
  • Release : 2014
  • ISBN : 0299302040
  • Pages : 294 pages

Download or read book The Offense of Love written by Ovid and published by University of Wisconsin Pres. This book was released on 2014 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work brings together a selection of the author's articles, written over a period of 20 years, observing the place of alcohol in American culture. The text also contains several ethnographic studies of bars in San Diego and a study of court-mandated programmes for drink drivers.

Book Ovid s Heroides  Amours  Art of Love  Remedy of Love and Minor Works

Download or read book Ovid s Heroides Amours Art of Love Remedy of Love and Minor Works written by Ovid and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-05-19 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the Introduction. The "Heroides" have been more than once translated into English verse, and they were published in prose by Davidson about the middle of the last century. Though the latter is professedly a literal Translation, it has no pretensions to be considered as such. It is, however, accompanied by many useful Notes, a portion of which, as embodying a careful analysis of the spirit of the writer, have been made available in the present Translation. The "Amores" have also been previously translated into English verse, but not into prose. The "Ars Amatoria" and the "Remedia Amoris" have never appeared in English prose, but a poetical version of them was made by Dryden, Congreve, and others. Their fluent lines, however, as might be presumed from the frequent allusion to powdered beaux, wigs, " the playhouse," and other fashions of their day, are less a translation, than an adaptation of the work to the manners of the times. Their version, too, entirely omits a considerable portion of the original, and, in many instances, apparently for no other reason than because the passages so omitted are difficult of interpretation. In the present translation of the Amatory Poems, paraphrases have in a few instances been found necessary, where a literal rendering could not have been presented to the public without a violation of the rules of decorum. It has also been thought advisable to leave the more exceptionable passages in the original Latin. The reader, if he is classical, will be able to translate them for himself; if he is not, he may rest assured that he sustains no loss. At the same time, it must in justice be acknowledged that both the Amours and the Art of Love contain a vast amount of most interesting information upon the domestic life of the Romans, not to be found in any other of the Classics, with the exception, perhaps, of Petronius Arbiter. The fragment "De Medicamine Faciei," "on the Care of the Complexion," better known to the English reader as the "Art of Beauty," has been once previously translated into English verse, but not, it is believed, into prose. The "Nux," or "Walnut-tree," has never before been published in English; nor has the "Consolation to Livia Augusta," a poem of considerable beauty, and now generally admitted to be the composition of Ovid.

Book Ovid s Erotic Poems

Download or read book Ovid s Erotic Poems written by Ovid and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2014-10-22 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The most sophisticated and daring poetic ironist of the early Roman Empire, Publius Ovidius Naso, is perhaps best known for his oft-imitated Metamorphoses. But the Roman poet also wrote lively and lewd verse on the subjects of love, sex, marriage, and adultery—a playful parody of the earnest erotic poetry traditions established by his literary ancestors. The Amores, Ovid's first completed book of poetry, explores the conventional mode of erotic elegy with some subversive and silly twists: the poetic narrator sets up a lyrical altar to an unattainable woman only to knock it down by poking fun at her imperfections. Ars Amatoria takes the form of didactic verse in which a purportedly mature and experienced narrator instructs men and women alike on how to best play their hands at the long con of love. Ovid's Erotic Poems offers a modern English translation of the Amores and Ars Amatoria that retains the irreverent wit and verve of the original. Award-winning poet Len Krisak captures the music of Ovid's richly textured Latin meters through rhyming couplets that render the verse as playful and agile as it was meant to be. Sophisticated, satirical, and wildly self-referential, Ovid's Erotic Poems is not just a wickedly funny send-up of romantic and sexual mores but also a sharp critique of literary technique and poetic convention.

Book Heroides and Amores

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  • Author : Ovid
  • Publisher : Loeb Classical Library
  • Release : 1914
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 542 pages

Download or read book Heroides and Amores written by Ovid and published by Loeb Classical Library. This book was released on 1914 with total page 542 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Heroides, Ovid (43 BC-AD 17) 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.

Book Bulletin

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  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1916
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 674 pages

Download or read book Bulletin written by and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 674 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Library Bulletin of the University of Saint Andrews

Download or read book Library Bulletin of the University of Saint Andrews written by University of St. Andrews. Library and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 668 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Bulletin

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  • Author : University of St. Andrews. Library
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1916
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 646 pages

Download or read book Bulletin written by University of St. Andrews. Library and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 646 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Library Bulletin of the University of St  Andrews

Download or read book Library Bulletin of the University of St Andrews written by University of St. Andrews and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 644 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Classical World

Download or read book The Classical World written by and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 562 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Love Books of Ovid

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  • Author : Ovid
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2013-10
  • ISBN : 9781258942755
  • Pages : 274 pages

Download or read book The Love Books of Ovid written by Ovid and published by . This book was released on 2013-10 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a new release of the original 1930 edition.

Book Ovid   The Metamorphoses  Books VIII   XV

Download or read book Ovid The Metamorphoses Books VIII XV written by Ovid and published by . This book was released on 2019-07-10 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publius Ovidius Naso but better known to us as simply Ovid was born on 20th March 43 BC in Sulmo (modern day Sulmona) in Italy. He was educated in rhetoric in Rome in preparation for the practice of Law. Accounts of his character say that he was emotional and not able to stay within the argumentative boundaries of rhetoric disclipine. After the early death of his brother, Ovid ceased his law studies and travelled to Athens, Asia Minor, and Sicily. He held a number of minor public posts but, around 29-25 BC began to pursue poetry, a decision that brought with it his father's disapproval. He married three times and divorced twice by the time he was thirty years old. He fathered a daughter, who eventually bore him grandchildren. His last wife was connected to the influential gens Fabia (an ancient Roman patrician family) and would help him during his later exile. The first decades of Ovid's literary career were mostly spent writing poetry with erotic themes. The chronology of these early works cannot, however, be relied upon. His earliest extant work is thought to be the 'Heroides', letters of mythological heroines to absent lovers, which is believed to have been published in 19 BC. The first five-book collection of the 'Amores', erotic poems addressed to a lover, Corinna, is believed to have been published in 16-15 BC. The surviving three book version appears to have been published c. 8-3 BC. Between these two editions of the 'Amores' his tragedy 'Medea', which was much admired in antiquity but is no longer extant, was performed. Ovid buoyed by his glowing reputation now increased the tempo of his writing. 'Medicamina Faciei', was followed by the 'Ars Amatoria, the Art of Love' and immediately followed by 'Remedia Amoris'. This body of elegiac, erotic poetry saw Ovid cited as the equal of the Roman elegists Gallus, Tibullus, and Propertius. By AD 8, he had completed his most ambitious work, the 'Metamorphoses', a 15-book hexameter epic poem. It catalogued Greek and Roman mythology, from the emergence of the universe to the apotheosis of Julius Caesar. Concurrent with this, he worked on the 'Fasti', planned as 12-books but only 6 volumes (January to June were completed) in elegiac couplets on the calendar of Roman festivals and astronomy were completed. The remaining six books were interrupted by Ovid's sentence to exile. In AD 8, Ovid was banished to Tomis, on the Black Sea, by the Emperor Augustus. This event shadowed his life and shaped his remaining poetic output. Ovid wrote that his exile was for carmen et error - "a poem and a mistake", claiming his crime was worse than murder, more harmful than poetry. Ovid was also a contemporary of the older Virgil and Horace, with whom he is often ranked as one of the three canonical poets of Latin literature. The Imperial scholar Quintilian considered him the last of the Latin love elegists. His poetry was much imitated during Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages, and greatly influenced Western art and literature. The Metamorphoses remains one of the most important sources of classical mythology. In exile, Ovid wrote 'Tristia' and 'Epistulae ex Ponto', pointedly focused on his sadness and desolation. He was far from Rome and his beloved third wife. The five books of the elegiac Tristia, a series of poems expressing the poet's despair in exile and advocating his return to Rome, are dated to AD 9-12. 'The Ibis', an elegiac curse poem attacking an adversary at home is also dated to this period. 'The Epistulae ex Ponto', a series of letters to friends in Rome asking them to effect his return, are thought to be his last compositions. Ovid died at Tomis in AD 17 or 18. It is thought that the Fasti, which he spent time revising, were published posthumously.

Book The Classical Weekly

Download or read book The Classical Weekly written by and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: