LoginOvid, IV, Metamorphoses: Books 9-15 (Loeb Classical Library)
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Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso, 43 BCE–17 CE), born at Sulmo, studied rhetoric and law at Rome. Later he did considerable public service there, and otherwise devoted himself to poetry and to society. Famous at first, he offended the emperor Augustus by his Ars Amatoria, and was banished because of this work and some other reason unknown to us, and dwelt in the cold and primitive town of Tomis on the Black Sea. He continued writing poetry, a kindly man, leading a temperate life. He died in exile.
Ovid's main surviving works are the Metamorphoses, a source of inspiration to artists and poets including Chaucer and Shakespeare; the
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Manufacturer: Harvard University Press
Release date: 1 January 1916
ISBN-10 : 0674990471 | ISBN-13: 9780674990470
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Release date: 1 January 1916
ISBN-10 : 0674990471 | ISBN-13: 9780674990470
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