Books And Quotes By Ovid

Quotes by Ovid

"Let others praise ancient times; I am glad I was born in these."

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"Chance is always powerful. Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be a fish."

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"Dripping water hollows out stone, not through force but through persistence."

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"Perfer et obdura, dolor hic tibi proderit olim. (Be patient and tough; someday this pain will be useful to you.)"

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"I grabbed a pile of dust, and holding it up, foolishly asked for as many birthdays as the grains of dust, I forgot to ask that they be years of youth."

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Books by Ovid

The Metamorphoses
60,507 ratings
by The New American Library
(first published 1960)

Metamorphoses
60,507 ratings
June 30th 2010 by LibriVox.org

Metamorphoses (International Student Edition) (The Norton Library)
60,507 ratings
March 15th 2021

Metamorphoses
60,064 ratings
August 3rd 2004 by Penguin
(first published 8)

The Art of Love
5,146 ratings
October 8th 2002 by Modern Library
(first published -1)

Heroides
2,587 ratings
April 26th 1990 by Penguin Classics
(first published -16)

Metamorphoses: A Play
2,460 ratings
March 27th 2002 by Northwestern University Press

Venus and Adonis...
2,348 ratings
March 21st 2012 by Nabu Press
(first published 1592)

The Erotic Poems
2,218 ratings
February 24th 1983 by Penguin Classics
(first published 2)

Aeneid, Books I-VI/Metamorphoses Selections
1,515 ratings
1929 by Scott, Foresman & Co. (Chicago/Atlanta/NY)
(first published -19)

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Ovid
Date of birth: April 01, 0043
Born: in Sulmo, Italia, Roman Republic, Italy.

Description: Publius Ovidius Naso (20 March 43 BCE – CE 17/18), known as Ovid (/ˈɒvɪd/) in the English-speaking world, was a Roman poet best known for the Metamorphoses, a 15-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 ("Art of Love"). 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.

Ovid is traditionally ranked alongside Virgil and Horace, his older contemporaries, as one of the three canonic poets of Latin literature. He was the first major Roman poet to begin his career during the reign of Augustus, and the Imperial scholar Quintilian considered him the last of the Latin love elegists. He enjoyed enormous popularity, but in one of the mysteries of literary history he was sent by Augustus into exile in a remote province on the Black Sea, where he remained until his death. Ovid himself attributes his exile to carmen et error, "a poem and a mistake", but his discretion in discussing the causes has resulted in much speculation among scholars.

Ovid's prolific poetry includes the Heroides, a collection of verse epistles written as by mythological heroines to the lovers who abandoned them; the Fasti, an incomplete six-book exploration of Roman religion with a calendar structure; and the Tristia and Epistulae ex Ponto, two collections of elegies in the form of complaining letters from his exile. His shorter works include the Remedia Amoris ("Cure for Love"), the curse-poem Ibis, and an advice poem on women's cosmetics. He wrote a lost tragedy, Medea, and mentions that some of his other works were adapted for staged performance.

See also Ovide.

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