Ovid zum Vergnügen

by Ovid

Anwalt soll er werden, etwas Handfestes lernen, sagt der Vater, aber Ovid kann nicht Alles, was er schreibt, wird ganz von selbst zum Vers. Ob diese berühmte Stelle oder der Nachruf auf einen Papagei, den Ovid nach allen Regeln der Redekunst ausführt, oder die versteckten poetischen Seitenhiebe auf Augustus’ Der Altphilologe Markus Janka hat zum 2000. Todesjahr unterhaltsame Texte aus Ovids Werken zusammengestellt. Der Leser kann somit dem liebeskranken jungen Ovid aus den Amores genauso begegnen wie dem zum Experten gereiften Lehrer in Liebesdingen und dem grandiosen Mythenerzähler der Metamorphosen .

160 pages, Paperback

Published January 1, 2017

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.