Ovid

The Metamorphoses of Ovid (8 AD) is an epic poem by Ovid. Published the same year, the poet was, sent into exile for the rest of his life, the Metamorphoses are the crowning achievement of the first major poet of the Roman empire. Written in dactylic hexameter, the meter of Homer's Iliad and Odyssey and of Virgil's Aeneid, Ovid's work is an epic poem of transformations, of shape-shifting matter and beings bound to the power of love. Taking as its...

"The first taste I had for books came to me from my pleasure in the fables of the Metamorphoses of Ovid. For at about seven or eight years of age I would steal away from any other pleasure to read them, inasmuch as this language was my mother tongue, and it was the easiest book I knew and the best suited by its content to my tender age." –Michel de Montaigne The Amores (16 BC) is a book of love elegies by Ovid. Divided into three books, The...

"The first taste I had for books came to me from my pleasure in the fables of the Metamorphoses of Ovid. For at about seven or eight years of age I would steal away from any other pleasure to read them, inasmuch as this language was my mother tongue, and it was the easiest book I knew and the best suited by its content to my tender age." –Michel de Montaigne Remedia Amoris; or, The Remedy of Love (2 AD) is an instructional poem by Ovid. A sequel...

L'une des plus célèbres oeuvres de l'Antiquité en numérique. Poèmes de narration mythologique, Les Métamorphoses est l'œuvre majeure d'Ovide. Ces poèmes sont composés de 15 Chants (environ 12 000 vers) entre l'an I et sans doute l'an IX ou X. Ce sont des récits issus de la mythologie grecque et romaine, Ovide décrit avec soin les transformations des dieux et des hommes en animaux, plantes ou pierres depuis la création du monde jusqu'au...

A la fois drle et sérieux, découvrez l'un des plus vieux textes érotiques existants L'Art d'Aimer est une œuvre en vers écrite à Rome vers l'an 1 de notre ère. Elle demeure un des textes érotiques parmi les plus célèbres au monde. Le poète Ovide s'adresse à nous comme à des élèves, garçons et filles, auxquels il va enseigner l'art d'aimer et de séduire, d'abord aux hommes dans les deux premiers livres, puis aux femmes dans le dernier....

"The Fasti", a work structured on the Roman calendar, is believed to have been left incomplete when Ovid was exiled to Tomis by the emperor Augustus in 8 A.D. It is a series of elegiac couplets which present the first-hand accounts of vates, or "poet-prophets" with Roman deities regarding the origin of various Roman holidays and associated customs. The first six months of the year are all that is included in the work and it is unclear whether this...

"The first taste I had for books came to me from my pleasure in the fables of the Metamorphoses of Ovid. For at about seven or eight years of age I would steal away from any other pleasure to read them, inasmuch as this language was my mother tongue, and it was the easiest book I knew and the best suited by its content to my tender age." –Michel de Montaigne Ars Amatoria; or, The Art of Love (2 AD) is an instructional poem by Ovid. Divided into...

"The Love Books of Ovid" is a collection of four works of Roman poet Ovid's verses on love in English prose translation. Ovid, born in 43 B.C., a contemporary of Virgil and Horace, lived during the reign of Augustus and is perhaps best remembered today for his work on Roman mythology entitled "The Metamorphoses". This volume collects the poet's following works: "The Loves", "The Art of Love", "Love's Cure", and "The Art of Beauty". Ovid was an innovator...

Ovide est né en -43 et mourut en l'an 17 de notre ère. Originaire de Sulmone, en Italie centrale, il avait étudié le droit et travaillé comme juriste avant de s'adonner à la poésie. Ses ¿uvres les plus connues et les plus célèbres sont Les Métamorphoses et L'Art d'aimer. Lors de sa sortie à Rome, il y a 2000 ans, L'Art d'aimer a été immédiatement populaire. Au XXIème siècle, L'Art d'aimer est encore joué au théâtre et son influence...

Auch 2000 Jahre nach der Niederschrift haben Ovids Versdichtungen nichts von ihrem Zauber verloren. Die vorliegende Auswahl erzählt vom Schicksal der klassischen Liebespaare der Antike: "Venus und Adonis", "Acis und Galatea", "Philemon und Baucis", "Scylla und Minos" und "Narcissus und Echo".