The Complete Works of Ovid. Illustrated: Metamorphoses, Amours, Heroides, To Art of Love, Love's Cure and others

by Ovid

A Roman poet known to the English-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, much imitated during Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages, had a decisive influence on European art and literature for centuries.
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 Tomis, a Dacian province on the Black Sea, where he remained a decade until his death.

AMOURS (VERSE)
AMOURS (PROSE)
HEROIDES
WOMEN'S COSMETICS
TO ART OF LOVE
LOVE'S CURE
METAMORPHOSES (VERSE)
METAMORPHOSES (PROSE)
FASTI
IBIS
TRISTIA
EPISTULAE EX PONTO

1902 pages, Kindle Edition

Published April 5, 2023

About the author

Publius Ovidius Naso (20 March 43 BC – AD 17/18), known in English as Ovid was a Roman poet who lived during the reign of Augustus. He was a younger contemporary of Virgil and Horatius, 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 exiled him to Tomis, the capital of the newly-organised province of Moesia, on the Black Sea, where he remained for the last nine or ten years of his life. Ovid himself attributed his banishment to a "poem and a mistake", but his reluctance to disclose specifics has resulted in much speculation among scholars.
Ovid is most famous for the Metamorphoses, a continuous mythological narrative in fifteen books written in dactylic hexameters. He is also known for works in elegiac couplets such as Ars Amatoria ("The Art of Love") and Fasti. 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 today.

Reviews

[Arvin Brian · Rating 3 out of 5]

Too many introductory pages

I just wanted a translation of Ovid’s works. It’s not the end of the world that this volume has dozens of introductory pages and includes the Latin and two translation versions, but I would’ve preferred a volume I could enjoy without distractions.