Ars Amatoria 1494
By Ovid, Niklas Holzberg, Len Krisak, Sarah Ruden, Ovid, Publius Ovidius Publius Ovidius Naso, Henry T. Riley, M.J. Griggs, b. p. moore
- Love poetry, Latin, Love-letters, Poetry, Latin Erotic poetry
Originally published Manchester: Carcanet, 2003.
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- Author
- Ovid, Niklas Holzberg, Len Krisak, Sarah Ruden, Ovid, Publius Ovidius Publius Ovidius Naso, Henry T. Riley, M.J. Griggs, b. p. moore
- First published
- 1494
- Pages
- 201
- Publisher
- Longseller, Stravon Publishers, Macmillan St. Martins Press
- Editions
- 200
- Language
- lat, Spanish, fro, French
- ISBN
- 9781536982039
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Ovid, was a Roman poet who is best known as the author of the Heroides, Amores, and Ars Amatoria, three major collections of erotic poetry, the Metamorphoses a mythological hexameter poem, the Fasti, about the Roman calendar, and the Tristia and Epistulae ex Ponto, two collections of poems written in exile on the Black Sea. Ovid was also the author of several smaller pieces, the Remedia Amoris, the Medicamina Faciei Femineae, and the Ibis, a long curse-poem. He also authored a lost tragedy, Medea. He is considered a master of the elegiac couplet, and is traditionally ranked alongside Virgil and Horace as one of the three canonic poets of Latin literature. The scholar Quintilian considered hi
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