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Publius Ovidius Naso, "Ovid" (43 BCE–17)

sister projects: Wikipedia article, Commons gallery, quotes. A Roman poet known to the English-speaking world as Ovid, wrote on topics of love, abandoned women, and mythological transformations. Ranked alongside Virgil and Horace as one of the three canonical poets of Latin literature, Ovid was generally considered the greatest master of the elegiac couplet. His poetry, much imitated during Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages, had a decisive influence on European art and literature for centuries.

Publius Ovidius Naso, "Ovid"

Works

• Amores: The Loves, 10 BCE
• Heroides (5BCE)[1]
• Remedia Amoris: The Cure for Love, 5 BCE
• Medicamina Faciei Feminae: Women's Facial Cosmetics, 5 BCE (also known as The Art of Beauty)
• Ars Amatoria: The Art of Love, 2 BCE
• Fasti: Festivals, 8 CE[2]
• Metamorphoses: Transformations, 8CE[3]
  • Metamorphoses (Riley), translated by Henry Thomas Riley (1816-1878) [4]
• Ibis (9 CE)
• Tristia: Sorrows, 10 CE[5]
• Epistulae ex Ponto: Letters from the Black Sea, 10 CE

Stories (From Metamorphoses)

• Creation
• Daphne and Apollo
• Pyramus and Thisbe (55-166)
• Daedalus and Icarus
• Baucis and Philemon, Met. VIII. 616-724
  • Baucis and Philemon, by Jonathan Swift
  • Baucis and Philemon, by Wikisource
• Pygmalion and Galatea
• The Fall of Phaëton
• Deucalion and Pyrrah
• Pyramus and Thisbe
• Cephalus and Procris
• Jove and Io
• Diana and Actaeon
• King Midas
• Pluto and Persephoneia
• Glaucus and Scylla
• Venus and Adonis
• Apollo and Hyacinthus
• Ceyx and Halcyone
• Vertumnus and Ponoma
  • Iphis and Anaxarete (a tale told by Vertumnus to Ponoma)
• Cupid and Psyche
• Jove and Europa
• Cadmus
• Echo and Narcissus
• Hero and Leander
• Minerva and Arachne
• Latona and Niobe
• Perseus and Medusa
• Perseus and Andromeda
• Oedipus and The Sphinx
• Belleorphon and the Chimera
• The Argonauts and the Golden Fleece
• Medea and Æson
• Atlanta and Meleager
• The Twelve Labors of Heracles
• Bacchus and Ariadne
• Erysichthon
• Achelous and Heracles
• Admetus and Alcetis
• Orpheus and Eurydice
• Marsyas
• Arion
• Diana and Orion
• Acis and Galatea
• Endymion

Sources

• AP Latin blog

Works by this author published before January 1, 1923 are in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago. Translations or editions published later may be copyrighted. Posthumous works may be copyrighted based on how long they have been published in certain countries and areas.