:''For other uses, see Ovid (disambiguation)'' [[Image:Ovidius Metamorphosis - George Sandy's 1632 edition.jpg|thumb|right|Engraved frontispiece of George Sandys's 1632 London edition of ''Ovids Metamorphosis Englished.'']] Publius Ovidius Naso, (Sulmona, March 20, 43 BC – Tomis, now Constanta AD 17) Roman Empire poet known to the English language-speaking world as Ovid, wrote on topics of love, abandoned women, and mythological transformations. Ranked alongside Virgil and Horace as one of the three canonical poets of Latin Literature, Ovid was generally considered the greatest master of the elegiac couplet. His poetry, largely imitated during Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages influenced decisively European art and literature for centuries. R. J. Tarrant offers the following assessment for the importance of Ovid: :From his own time until the end of Antiquity Ovid was among the most widely read and imitated of Latin poets; his greatest work, the ''Metamorphoses'', also seems to have enjoyed the largest popularity. What place Ovid may have had in the curriculum of ancient schools is hard to determine: no body of antique scholia survives for any of his works, but it seems likely that the elegance of his style and his command of rhetorical technique would have commended him as a school author, perhaps at the elementary level.#References # Ovid wrote in elegiac couplets, with the exception of his great ''Metamorphoses,'' which he wrote in dactylic hexameter in imitation of Vergil ''Aeneid'' and Homer 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 Tomis on the Black Sea 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 in circulation for several years. It was during this exile that Ovid wrote a series of poems, called ''Tristia'', which illustrate his sadness and desolation away from Rome. Even though he was friendly with the natives of Tomis, he still pined for Rome and his beloved third wife. Many of the poems are addressed to her, but also to Augustus, whom he calls Caesar and sometimes God, to himself, and even sometimes to the poems themselves, which expresses his heart-felt solitude. The famous first two lines of the Tristia ... :''Parve -- nec invideo -- sine me, liber, ibis in urbem:'' :''ei mihi, quod domino non licet ire tuo!'' can be translated as ... :''Little one -- and I won't hinder you -- without me, book, you will go to the City:'' :''Alas for me, because, for your master, it is illegal to go!'' Ovid would eventually die in exile. ==Works== ===Existing and generally considered authentic, with approximate dates of publication=== * (10 BC) ''Amores'' ('The Loves'), 5 books, about "Corinna", anti-marriage (revised into 3 books c. AD 1) * (5 BC) ''Heroides'' ('The Heroines') or '' Epistulae Heroidum'' ('Letters of Heroines'), 21 letters (letters 16–21 were composed around AD 4 - 8) * (5 BC) ''Remedium Amoris'' ('The Cure for Love'), 1 book * (5 BC) ''Medicamina Faciei Femineae'' ('Women's Facial Cosmetics' or 'The Art of Beauty'), 100 lines surviving * (2 BC) ''Ars Amatoria'' ('The Art of Love'), 3 books (the third written somewhat later) * (AD 8) ''Metamorphoses (poem)'' ('Transformations'), 15 books * (9) ''Ibis (Ovid)'', a single poem * (10) ''Tristia'' ('Sorrows'), 5 books * (10) ''Epistulae ex Ponto'' ('Letters from the Black Sea'), 4 books * (12) ''Fasti'' ('Festivals'), 6 books surviving which cover the first 6 months of the year and provide unique information on the Roman calendar ===Lost or generally considered spurious=== * ''Medea'', a lost tragedy about Medea * a poem in Getic, the language of Dacia where Ovid was exiled, not extant (and possibly fictional) * ''Nux'' ('The Walnut Tree') * ''Consolatio ad Liviam'' ('Consolation to Livia') * ''Haleutica'' ('On Fishing') - generally considered spurious, a poem that some have identified with the otherwise lost poem of the same name written by Ovid. ==Works and artists inspired by Ovid== *Gian Lorenzo Bernini *Sandro Botticelli, and many others Renaissance and Baroque artists. *Petrarch *The Troubadours and the medieval courtoise literature *The Roman of the Rose * (1994): ''After Ovid: New Metamorphoses'' edited by Michael Hofmann and James Lasdun is an anthology of contemporary poetry reenvisioning Ovid's ''Metamorphoses'' * (1997): ''Tales from Ovid'' by Ted Hughes is a modern poetic translation of twenty four passages from ''Metamorphoses'' * (2002) An adaptation of Metamorphoses by Mary Zimmerman appeared on Broadway's Circle on the Square Theater, which featured an onstage pool [http://www.talkinbroadway.com/world/Metamorphoses.html] ==See also== * Metamorphoses for external links specific to that work. * Latin literature ==References== # R. J. Tarrant, "Ovid" in ''Texts and Transmission: A Survery of the Latin Clasics'' (Oxford, 1983), p. 257. ==External links== *[http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/latin/ovid/notes.html University of Virginia, "Ovid Illustrated: The Renaissance Reception of Ovid in Image and Text"] * Latin and English translation ** [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/perscoll?.submit=Change&collection=Perseus%3Acollection%3AGreco-Roman&type=text&lang=Any&lookup=Ovidius Perseus/Tufts: P. Ovidius Naso] ''Amores'', ''Ars Amatoria'', ''Heroides'' (on this site called ''Epistulae''), ''Metamorphoses'', ''Remedia Amoris''. Enhanced brower. Not downloadable. ** [http://www.sacred-texts.com/cla/ovid Sacred Texts Archive: Ovid] ''Amores'', ''Ars Amatoria'', ''Medicamina Faciei Femineae'', ''Metamorphoses'', ''Remedia Amoris''. ** [http://fax.libs.uga.edu/PA6519xM3xB8/ ''The Metamorphoses of Publius Ovidius Naso'']; elucidated by an analysis and explanation of the fables, together with English notes, historical, mythological and critical, and illustrated by pictorial embellishments: with a dictionary, giving the meaning of all the words with critical exactness. By Nathan Covington Brooks. Publisher: New York, A. S. Barnes & co.; Cincinnati, H. W. Derby & co., 1857 * Original Latin only ** [http://www.thelatinlibrary.com/ovid.html Latin Library: Ovid] ''Amores'', ''Ars Amatoria'', ''Epistulae ex Ponto'', ''Fasti'', ''Heroides'', ''Ibis'', ''Metamorphoses'', ''Remedia Amoris'', ''Tristia''. ** [http://www.gutenberg.net/etext/8738 Gutenberg Project: Fasti] With introduction and extensive notes in English by Thomas Keightley. Plain text version. * English translation only ** [http://www.tonykline.co.uk New translations by A. S. Kline] ''Amores'', ''Ars Amatoria'', ''Epistulae ex Ponto'', ''Fasti'', ''Heroides'', ''Ibis'', ''Medicamina Faciei Femineae'', ''Metamorphoses'', ''Remedia Amoris'', ''Tristia'' with enhanced browsing facility, downloadable in HTML, PDF, or MS Word DOC formats. * Commentary ** [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/ptext?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.04.0061;layout=;loc=1.1;query=toc Perseus/Tufts: Commentary on the ''Heroides'' of Ovid] 43 BC births 17 deaths Roman era poets Natives of the Abruzzo Vegetarians ga:Oivid la:Publius Ovidius Naso
Shouldn't this just be at Ovid? I mean, no one ever calls him Publius Ovidius Naso, or even just Ovidius. Virgil and Horace are at their common names, rather than their full ones (as are the Roman Emperors). User:Adam Bishop 06:03, 21 Sep 2003 (UTC) :I agree; I'll do the move (there's some history at the old Ovid page). If there are objections it's easily undone, and at any rate I'd be interested in seeing what any objections might be. - User:Hephaestos 06:37, 21 Sep 2003 (UTC)
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Ovid
:''For other uses, see Ovid (disambiguation)'' [[Image:Ovidius Metamorphosis - George Sandy's 1632 edition.jpg|thumb|right|Engraved frontispiece of George Sandys's 1632 London edition of ''Ovids Metamorphosis Englished.'']] Publius Ovidius Naso, (Sulmona, March 20, 43 BC – Tomis, now Constanta AD 17) Roman Empire poet known to the English language-speaking world as Ovid, wrote on topics of love, abandoned women, and mythological transformations. Ranked alongside Virgil and Horace as one of the three canonical poets of Latin Literature, Ovid was generally considered the greatest master of the elegiac couplet. His poetry, largely imitated during Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages influenced decisively European art and literature for centuries. R. J. Tarrant offers the following assessment for the importance of Ovid: :From his own time until the end of Antiquity Ovid was among the most widely read and imitated of Latin poets; his greatest work, the ''Metamorphoses'', also seems to have enjoyed the largest popularity. What place Ovid may have had in the curriculum of ancient schools is hard to determine: no body of antique scholia survives for any of his works, but it seems likely that the elegance of his style and his command of rhetorical technique would have commended him as a school author, perhaps at the elementary level.#References # Ovid wrote in elegiac couplets, with the exception of his great ''Metamorphoses,'' which he wrote in dactylic hexameter in imitation of Vergil ''Aeneid'' and Homer 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 Tomis on the Black Sea 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 in circulation for several years. It was during this exile that Ovid wrote a series of poems, called ''Tristia'', which illustrate his sadness and desolation away from Rome. Even though he was friendly with the natives of Tomis, he still pined for Rome and his beloved third wife. Many of the poems are addressed to her, but also to Augustus, whom he calls Caesar and sometimes God, to himself, and even sometimes to the poems themselves, which expresses his heart-felt solitude. The famous first two lines of the Tristia ... :''Parve -- nec invideo -- sine me, liber, ibis in urbem:'' :''ei mihi, quod domino non licet ire tuo!'' can be translated as ... :''Little one -- and I won't hinder you -- without me, book, you will go to the City:'' :''Alas for me, because, for your master, it is illegal to go!'' Ovid would eventually die in exile. ==Works== ===Existing and generally considered authentic, with approximate dates of publication=== * (10 BC) ''Amores'' ('The Loves'), 5 books, about "Corinna", anti-marriage (revised into 3 books c. AD 1) * (5 BC) ''Heroides'' ('The Heroines') or '' Epistulae Heroidum'' ('Letters of Heroines'), 21 letters (letters 16–21 were composed around AD 4 - 8) * (5 BC) ''Remedium Amoris'' ('The Cure for Love'), 1 book * (5 BC) ''Medicamina Faciei Femineae'' ('Women's Facial Cosmetics' or 'The Art of Beauty'), 100 lines surviving * (2 BC) ''Ars Amatoria'' ('The Art of Love'), 3 books (the third written somewhat later) * (AD 8) ''Metamorphoses (poem)'' ('Transformations'), 15 books * (9) ''Ibis (Ovid)'', a single poem * (10) ''Tristia'' ('Sorrows'), 5 books * (10) ''Epistulae ex Ponto'' ('Letters from the Black Sea'), 4 books * (12) ''Fasti'' ('Festivals'), 6 books surviving which cover the first 6 months of the year and provide unique information on the Roman calendar ===Lost or generally considered spurious=== * ''Medea'', a lost tragedy about Medea * a poem in Getic, the language of Dacia where Ovid was exiled, not extant (and possibly fictional) * ''Nux'' ('The Walnut Tree') * ''Consolatio ad Liviam'' ('Consolation to Livia') * ''Haleutica'' ('On Fishing') - generally considered spurious, a poem that some have identified with the otherwise lost poem of the same name written by Ovid. ==Works and artists inspired by Ovid== *Gian Lorenzo Bernini *Sandro Botticelli, and many others Renaissance and Baroque artists. *Petrarch *The Troubadours and the medieval courtoise literature *The Roman of the Rose * (1994): ''After Ovid: New Metamorphoses'' edited by Michael Hofmann and James Lasdun is an anthology of contemporary poetry reenvisioning Ovid's ''Metamorphoses'' * (1997): ''Tales from Ovid'' by Ted Hughes is a modern poetic translation of twenty four passages from ''Metamorphoses'' * (2002) An adaptation of Metamorphoses by Mary Zimmerman appeared on Broadway's Circle on the Square Theater, which featured an onstage pool [http://www.talkinbroadway.com/world/Metamorphoses.html] ==See also== * Metamorphoses for external links specific to that work. * Latin literature ==References== # R. J. Tarrant, "Ovid" in ''Texts and Transmission: A Survery of the Latin Clasics'' (Oxford, 1983), p. 257. ==External links== *[http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/latin/ovid/notes.html University of Virginia, "Ovid Illustrated: The Renaissance Reception of Ovid in Image and Text"] * Latin and English translation ** [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/perscoll?.submit=Change&collection=Perseus%3Acollection%3AGreco-Roman&type=text&lang=Any&lookup=Ovidius Perseus/Tufts: P. Ovidius Naso] ''Amores'', ''Ars Amatoria'', ''Heroides'' (on this site called ''Epistulae''), ''Metamorphoses'', ''Remedia Amoris''. Enhanced brower. Not downloadable. ** [http://www.sacred-texts.com/cla/ovid Sacred Texts Archive: Ovid] ''Amores'', ''Ars Amatoria'', ''Medicamina Faciei Femineae'', ''Metamorphoses'', ''Remedia Amoris''. ** [http://fax.libs.uga.edu/PA6519xM3xB8/ ''The Metamorphoses of Publius Ovidius Naso'']; elucidated by an analysis and explanation of the fables, together with English notes, historical, mythological and critical, and illustrated by pictorial embellishments: with a dictionary, giving the meaning of all the words with critical exactness. By Nathan Covington Brooks. Publisher: New York, A. S. Barnes & co.; Cincinnati, H. W. Derby & co., 1857 * Original Latin only ** [http://www.thelatinlibrary.com/ovid.html Latin Library: Ovid] ''Amores'', ''Ars Amatoria'', ''Epistulae ex Ponto'', ''Fasti'', ''Heroides'', ''Ibis'', ''Metamorphoses'', ''Remedia Amoris'', ''Tristia''. ** [http://www.gutenberg.net/etext/8738 Gutenberg Project: Fasti] With introduction and extensive notes in English by Thomas Keightley. Plain text version. * English translation only ** [http://www.tonykline.co.uk New translations by A. S. Kline] ''Amores'', ''Ars Amatoria'', ''Epistulae ex Ponto'', ''Fasti'', ''Heroides'', ''Ibis'', ''Medicamina Faciei Femineae'', ''Metamorphoses'', ''Remedia Amoris'', ''Tristia'' with enhanced browsing facility, downloadable in HTML, PDF, or MS Word DOC formats. * Commentary ** [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/ptext?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.04.0061;layout=;loc=1.1;query=toc Perseus/Tufts: Commentary on the ''Heroides'' of Ovid] 43 BC births 17 deaths Roman era poets Natives of the Abruzzo Vegetarians ga:Oivid la:Publius Ovidius Naso
Ovid
Shouldn't this just be at Ovid? I mean, no one ever calls him Publius Ovidius Naso, or even just Ovidius. Virgil and Horace are at their common names, rather than their full ones (as are the Roman Emperors). User:Adam Bishop 06:03, 21 Sep 2003 (UTC) :I agree; I'll do the move (there's some history at the old Ovid page). If there are objections it's easily undone, and at any rate I'd be interested in seeing what any objections might be. - User:Hephaestos 06:37, 21 Sep 2003 (UTC)
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Ovid_Township,_Branch_County,_Michigan
Ovid_Township,_Clinton,_MI
Ovid_Township,_Clinton,_Michigan
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