The Love Poems - Ovid. A translation into English by A. S. Kline. Published with illustrations (various). The Amores was Ovid’s first book of poetry, consisting of love elegies, involving the possibly-fictitious Corinna. Mildly subversive it was published in 16BC, in five books, but later edited by Ovid into its surviving three-book form/5(32). · Ovid was a popular great roman poet, living during the reign of Augustus, and a contemporary of Virgil and Horace. He is best known for the Metamorphoses, a book continuous mythological narrative written in the meter of epic, and for collections of love poetry in elegiac couplets, especially the Amores (Love Affairs) and Ars Amatoria (The Art of Love). Ovid: The Love Poems - A new freely downloadable translation of Ovid's Amores, Ars Amatoria and Remedia Amoris.
The Amores was Ovid's first book of poetry, consisting of love elegies, involving the possibly-fictitious Corinna. Mildly subversive it was published in 16BC, in five books, but later edited by Ovid into its surviving three-book form. The Love Poems. Ovid. Translated by A. D. Melville and With an introduction and notes by E. J. Kenney. Oxford World's Classics. Description. Alan Melville's accomplished translations match the sophisticated elegance of Ovid's Latin. Their witty modern idiom is highly entertaining. In this volume he has included the brilliant version of the Art. Ovid. Ovid was born on Ma B.C., in Sulmo (known today as Sulmona), Italy. He is considered by some to be the last of the Golden Age poets (Horace, Vergil), or by others the first of the Silver Age poets (Statius, Lucan). Unlike other Golden Age poets that survived the wars that marked the violent downfall of the Roman Republic.
Contents, List of Illustrations. The Loves: Book I. Elegy I: The Poet Explains How It Is He Comes To Sing Of Love Instead Of Battles. Elegy II: The Triumph Of Love. Elegy III: He Commends Himself To His Mistress By The Merits Of His Poetry, The Purity Of His Morals, And By The Vow Of His Unchangeable Fidelity. Ovid: The Love Poems Themes Young Love. Love, obviously, is the main topic of the love poems. However, the focus is strictly on love that has yet to Sexuality. Different from love poems written by Christian poets of the last years, Ovid and other Roman poets used Fidelity. As Ovid's and. Ovid: The Love Poems - A new freely downloadable translation of Ovid's Amores, Ars Amatoria and Remedia Amoris.
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