The Complete Works of Ovid. Illustrated

Download or read book The Complete Works of Ovid. Illustrated written by Ovid and published by Strelbytskyy Multimedia Publishing. This book was released on 2023-04-10 with total page 1860 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.