The Ovid Page
( 43 B. C.- A. D. 17 )
In nova fert animus mutatas dicere formas / corpora...
Major Works
Amores. This work and the following four are translated and introduced by Peter Green in The Erotic Poems. Penguin.
The Art of Love.
Remedies of Love.
Cosmetics for Women.
Heroides. Verse letters of famous heroines to their lovers. Translated with Introduction and notes by Harold Isbell. Penguin.
The Metamorphoses .
George Sandys ( 1640 ) Translation On Line. On Line from M.I.T. A Modern Prose Translation.
The Metamorphoses has also been translated into verse by Humphries ( Indiana, 1955 ), Gregory ( Mentor, 1960 ), and Mandelbaum ( Harcourt Brace, 1993 ).
Fasti. Half-completed poetic calendar.
Tristia. Like the following work, a product of Ovid's unhappy exile from Rome. Both appear in Poems of Exile. Translated and introduced by Peter Green. Penguin,
Letters from the Sea.
About Ovid
Sara Mack, Ovid. Yale, 1988. Intended as an introduction for the general reader.
Ovid's Metamorphoses from Larry Brown. Start here!
The Ovid Collection from U. Virginia.
Structure of the Metamorphoses
The Ovid Project
Ovid Look-up Tool from Perseus Project.
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