Who is Ovid
Pūblius Ovidius Nāsō (Latin: [ˈpuːbliʊs ɔˈwɪdiʊs ˈnaːsoː]; 20 March 43 BC – 17/18 AD), known in English as Ovid ( OV-id), was a Roman poet who lived during the reign of Augustus. He was 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. Although Ovid enjoyed enormous popularity during his lifetime, the emperor Augustus banished him to a remote province on the Black Sea, where he remained a decade until his death.Overview
A contemporary of the older poets Virgil and Horace, Ovid was the first major Roman poet to begin his career during Augustus's reign. Collectively, they are considered ...
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Ovid Poems
- Love And War
Lovers all are soldiers, and Cupid has his campaigns:
I tell you, Atticus, lovers all are soldiers.
Youth is fit for war, and also fit for Venus.
Imagine an aged soldier, an elderly lover! ... - Metamorphoses: Book The Third
WHEN now Agenor had his daughter lost,
He sent his son to search on ev'ry coast;
And sternly bid him to his arms restore
The darling maid, or see his face no more, ... - Metamorphoses: Book The Twelfth
PRIAM, to whom the story was unknown,
As dead, deplor'd his metamorphos'd son:
A cenotaph his name, and title kept,
And Hector round the tomb, with all his brothers, ... - Metamorphoses: Book The Eighth
NOW shone the morning star in bright array,
To vanquish night, and usher in the day:
The wind veers southward, and moist clouds arise,
That blot with shades the blue meridian skies. ... - Metamorphoses: Book The Eighth
NOW shone the morning star in bright array,
To vanquish night, and usher in the day:
The wind veers southward, and moist clouds arise,
That blot with shades the blue meridian skies. ...
Top 10 most used topics by Ovid
I Love You 20 Love 20 Book 20 Long 18 Life 18 Face 18 Night 18 Fate 17 Fire 16 Shame 16Ovid Quotes
- What is harder than rock, or softer than water Yet soft water hollows out hard rock. Persevere.
- Let your hook be always cast. In the pool where you least expect it, will be fish.
- All things change, nothing perishes.
- Love is a kind of warfare.
- Nothing is stronger than habit.
Comments about Ovid
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Writtenbyhanna: kerry is innocent
Life_of_ccb: “if you would be loved, be lovable” ― ovid
Fuzzy_ovid: the left be like….
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