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Ovid

Born

Sulmo, Italy, Roman Republic

Genre

Poetry, Greek Mythology

Influences

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Publius Ovidius Naso (20 March 43 BC – AD 17/18), known in English as Ovid was a Roman poet who lived during the reign of Augustus. He was a younger contemporary of Virgil and Horatius, with whom he is often ranked as one of the three canonical poets of Latin literature. The Imperial scholar Quintilian considered him the last of the Latin love elegists. Although Ovid enjoyed enormous popularity during his lifetime, the emperor Augustus exiled him to Tomis, the capital of the newly-organised province of Moesia, on the Black Sea, where he remained for the last nine or ten years of his life. Ovid himself attributed his banishment to a "poem and a mistake", but his reluctance to disclose specifics has resulted in much speculation among schol ...more

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Average rating: 4.04 · 107,729 ratings · 5,781 reviews · 2,956 distinct works • Similar authors

	Metamorphoses 4.10 avg rating — 78,869 ratings — published 8 — 12 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Art of Love 3.70 avg rating — 7,692 ratings — published 1 — 543 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Heroides 4.12 avg rating — 3,847 ratings — published -16 — 243 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Fall of Icarus (Penguin Little Black Classics, #73) by Ovid, Mary M. Innes (Translator) 3.39 avg rating — 3,869 ratings — published 8 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Erotic Poems by Ovid, Peter Green (Translator) 4.06 avg rating — 2,532 ratings — published -2 — 30 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Metamorphoses: Books 1-8 by Ovid, Frank Justus Miller (Translator), G.P. Goold (Editor) 4.42 avg rating — 873 ratings — published 8 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Poems of Exile: Tristia and the Black Sea Letters 4.03 avg rating — 693 ratings — published 13 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Fasti by Ovid, Anthony J. Boyle, Roger D. Woodard 3.80 avg rating — 668 ratings — published -12 — 288 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Amori 3.99 avg rating — 583 ratings — published -16 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Remedia amoris by Ovid, A.A.R. Henderson (Editor) 3.88 avg rating — 473 ratings — published 2 — 17 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Quotes by Ovid (?)

“Let others praise ancient times; I am glad I was born in these.”
― Ovid

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“Chance is always powerful. Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be a fish.”
― Ovid, Heroides

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“Dripping water hollows out stone, not through force but through persistence.”
― Ovid

tags: activism, change, inspirational, perseverance

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Polls

August 2018 Old School Poll

The Sorrows of Young Werther by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1774, 149 pages

72 votes, 26.6%

Les Liaisons dangereuses by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos 1782, 448 pages

68 votes, 25.1%

Meditations by Marcus Aurelius 180 AD, 304 pages

63 votes, 23.2%

Metamorphoses by Ovid 8 AD, 723 pages

41 votes, 15.1%

The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne 1759, 784 pages

27 votes, 10.0%

271 total votes

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