9780674992795-0674992792-Ovid: Fasti (Loeb Classical Library No. 253) (English and Latin Edition)

Ovid: Fasti (Loeb Classical Library No. 253) (English and Latin Edition)

ISBN-13: 9780674992795
ISBN-10: 0674992792
Edition: 2nd
Author: Ovid
Publication date: 1931
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Format: Hardcover 496 pages
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ISBN-13: 9780674992795
ISBN-10: 0674992792
Edition: 2nd
Author: Ovid
Publication date: 1931
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Format: Hardcover 496 pages

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Ovid: Fasti (Loeb Classical Library No. 253) (English and Latin Edition) (ISBN-13: 9780674992795 and ISBN-10: 0674992792), written by authors Ovid, was published by Harvard University Press in 1931. With an overall rating of 3.9 stars, it's a notable title among other books. You can easily purchase or rent Ovid: Fasti (Loeb Classical Library No. 253) (English and Latin Edition) (Hardcover) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $6.55.

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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 Fasti, a poetic treatment of the Roman year of which Ovid finished only half; the Amores, love poems; the Ars Amatoria, not moral but clever and in parts beautiful; Heroides, fictitious love letters by legendary women to absent husbands; and the dismal works written in exile: the Tristia, appeals to persons including his wife and also the emperor; and similar Epistulae ex Ponto. Poetry came naturally to Ovid, who at his best is lively, graphic and lucid.

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

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