biography
| name: |
Ovid
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in full Publius Ovidius Naso
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pronunciation:
[ovid]
| sex:
| male
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| born:
| 43 BC
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| died:
| 17 AD |
| biography:
| Latin poet, born in Sulmo, Italy. He trained as a lawyer, but devoted himself to poetry, and visited Athens. His first success was the tragedy Medea, followed by Heroides, love letters from legendary heroines to their lords. His major poems are the three-book Ars amatoria (Art of Love) and the 15-book Metamorphoses (Transformations), written in hexameters and imitated by Goethe and Pushkin. With its startling insights into psychological states and symbolism, this is one of the most influential works from antiquity. In AD 8 he was banished, for some reason unknown, to Tomi on the Black Sea. |
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