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Publius Ovidius Naso , known as Ovid in the English-speaking world, was a Roman poet best known for the Metamorphoses, a 15-book continuous mythological narrative written in the meter of epic, and for collections of love poetry in elegiac couplets, especially the Amores and Ars Amatoria . His poetry was much imitated during Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages, and greatly influenced Western art and literature. The Metamorphoses remains one of the most important sources of classical mythology.

Ovid is traditionally ranked alongside Virgil and Horace, his older contemporaries, as one of the three canonic poets of Latin literature. He was the first major Roman poet to begin his career during the reign of Augustus, and the Imperial scholar Quintilian considered him the last of the Latin love elegists. He enjoyed enormous popularity, but in one of the mysteries of literary history he was sent by Augustus into exile in a remote province on the Black Sea, where he remained until his death. Ovid himself attributes his exile to carmen et error, "a poem and a mistake", but his discretion in discussing the causes has resulted in much speculation among scholars.

Ovid's prolific poetry includes the Heroides, a collection of verse epistles written as by mythological heroines to the lovers who abandoned them; the Fasti, an incomplete six-book exploration of Roman religion with a calendar structure; and the Tristia and Epistulae ex Ponto, two collections of elegies in the form of complaining letters from his exile. His shorter works include the Remedia Amoris , the curse-poem Ibis, and an advice poem on women's cosmetics. He wrote a lost tragedy, Medea, and mentions that some of his other works were adapted for staged performance.

See also Ovide.

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Ovid

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Books from Ovid

The Art of Love

Heroides

Tales from Ovid: 24 Passages from the Metamorphoses

The Erotic Poems

The Fall of Icarus

The Metamorphoses of Ovid

The Poems of Exile: Tristia and the Black Sea Letters

Fasti

Ovid's Metamorphoses: Books 1-5

Mitos clasificados 1

The Erotic Poems

The Love Poems

Ars Amatoria I

Orpheus in the Underworld

The Art of Love and Other Poems

The Metamorphoses of Publius Ovidus Naso in English blank verse Vols. I & II

Heroides. Amores

El arte de amar. El remedio del amor

Ovid in Love

Amori