Ovid, Tristia, Ex ponto / Loeb Classical Library.

Condition : good, slight shelf wear, otherwise very good.
Volumes : vol. 6 (of 6).
Language : Bilingual Latin and English on opposite pages.

Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso, 43 BC - 17 AD), born in Sulmo, studied rhetoric and law in Rome. Later he performed many public services there, and otherwise devoted himself to poetry and society. Famous at first, he offended the emperor Augustus with his Ars Amatoria (Art of Love). He was banished because of this work and for some other reason unknown to us, and settled in the cold, primitive city of Tomis on the Black Sea. He continued to write poetry - a kind man, leading a temperate life - and died in exile.

Ovid's main surviving works are the Metamorphoses, a source of inspiration for artists and poets, including Chaucer and Shakespeare; the Eroids, fictional love letters written by legendary women to absent husbands and lovers; the Amores, elegies ostensibly about the poet's love affair with his mistress Corinna; the Ars Amatoria, which is not moral, but is intelligent - and partly beautiful; the Fasti, a poetic treatment of the Roman year, of which Ovid completed only half; and the mournful works written in exile: the Tristia, addressed to individuals, including his wife and the emperor, and the Epistulae ex Ponto. Poetry came naturally to Ovid, who at his best is vivid, graphic and lucid.

The Loeb Classical Library edition of Ovid is in six volumes.

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