:For other uses, see Ovid (disambiguation)
Publius Ovidius Naso, ( March 20, 43 BC – AD 17) Roman poet known to the English-speaking world as Ovid, wrote on topics of love, abandoned women, and mythological transformations.
Ovid wrote in elegiac couplets, with the exception of his great Metamorphoses, which he wrote in dactylic hexameter in imitation of Vergil's Aeneid and Homer's epics. Ovid does not offer an epic narrative like his predecessors but promises a chronological account of the cosmos from creation to his own day, incorporating many myths and legends from the Greek and Roman traditions.
Augustus banished Ovid in AD 8 to TomisTomis (also called Tomi was a Greek colony in the province of Scythia on the Black Sea's shore, founded around 500 BC for commercial exchanges with local Dacian populations. In 29 BC the Romans captured the region from the Odryses, and annexed it as far a on the Black SeaNASA MODIS The Black Sea (also known as the Euxine Sea is an inland sea between southeastern Europe and Asia Minor. It is connected to the Mediterranean Sea by the Bosporus and the Sea of Marmara, and to the Sea of Azov by the Strait of Kerch. There is a for reasons that remain mysterious (Ovid himself wrote that it was because of an 'error' and a 'carmen' – a mistake and a poem). He may have had an affair with a female relative of Augustus, and the 'carmen' mentioned by Ovid may be his supposedly immoral Ars Amatoria, which had been available for some time.
- Amores ('The Loves'), 5 books, written after 20 BCCenturies: 2nd century BC 1st century BC 1st century Decades: 70s BC 60s BC 50s BC 40s BC 30s BC 20s BC 10s BC 0s 10s 20s 30s Years: 25 BC 24 BC 23 BC 22 BC 21 BC 20 BC 19 BC 18 BC 17 BC 16 BC 15 BC Births Gaius Caesar, grandson of Augustus Caesar Deaths (revised into 3 books c. AD 1For other uses, see One (disambiguation), for the number, see Number 1. Centuries: 1st century BC 1st century 2nd century Decades: 40s BC 30s BC 20s BC 10s BC 0s BC 0s 10s 20s 30s 40s 50s Years: 5 BC 4 BC 3 BC 2 BC 1 BC 1 2 3 4 5 6 (Year 0 does not exist)
- Heroides ('The Heroines') or Epistulae Heroidum ('Letters of Heroines'), 21 letters of which the first group (letters 1–15) were written around 15 BCCenturies: 2nd century BC 1st century BC 1st century Decades: 60s BC 50s BC 40s BC 30s BC 20s BC 10s BC 0s 10s 20s 30s 40s Years: 20 BC 19 BC 18 BC 17 BC 16 BC 15 BC 14 BC 13 BC 12 BC 11 BC 10 BC Events Vienna becomes a frontier city guarding the Roman Em, letters 16–21 around AD 4Centuries: 1st century BC 1st century 2nd century Decades: 40s BC 30s BC 20s BC 10s BC 0s BC 0s 10s 20s 30s 40s 50s Years: 2 BC 1 BC 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Events Rome: Emperor Caesar Augustus summons Tiberius to Rome, and names him his heir and future emperor- 8.
- Ars Amatoria ('The Art of Love'), 3 books, the first two written about 1 BCCenturies: 2nd century BC 1st century BC 1st century Decades: 50s BC 40s BC 30s BC 20s BC 10s BC 0s BC 0s 10s 20s 30s 40s 6 BC 5 BC 4 BC 3 BC 2 BC 1 BC 1 2 3 4 Events Births December 25 Jesus Christ (died about 30) traditional date, as assigned by Dionysi to AD 1For other uses, see One (disambiguation), for the number, see Number 1. Centuries: 1st century BC 1st century 2nd century Decades: 40s BC 30s BC 20s BC 10s BC 0s BC 0s 10s 20s 30s 40s 50s Years: 5 BC 4 BC 3 BC 2 BC 1 BC 1 2 3 4 5 6 (Year 0 does not exist) and the third somewhat later.
- Remedium Amoris ('The Cure for Love'), 1 book
- Medicamina Faciei Femineae ('Women's Facial Cosmetics'), 100 lines surviving.
- Medea, a lost tragedy about Medea.
- Metamorphoses ('Transformations'), 15 books
- Fasti ('Festivals'), 6 books surviving which cover the first 6 months of the year and provide unique information on the Roman calendar.
- Tristia ('Sorrows'), 1 book, after AD 8
- Epistulae ex Ponto ('Letters from the Black Sea'), 4 books, after AD 8
- Ibis, a single poem, after AD 8
- Haleutica ('On Fishing'), which has probably not survived (see below).
- a poem in Getic , the language of Dacia where Ovid was exiled, not extant (and probably fictional).
Poems sometimes attributed to Ovid but generally considered spurious:
- Nux ('The Walnut Tree')
- Consolatio ad Liviam ('Consolation to Livia')
- Haleutica ('On Fishing'), a poem that some have identifed with the otherwise lost poem of the same name written by Ovid.
See Metamorphoses for external links specific to that work.
See Latin literature
