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Ovid

Born

Sulmo, Italy, Roman Republic

Genre

Poetry, Greek Mythology

Influences

Homer, Virgil, Hesiod, Lucretius Carus, Catullus, Marcus Tullius Cicer ...more

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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 · 103,609 ratings · 5,341 reviews · 2,809 distinct works • Similar authors

	Metamorphoses 4.10 avg rating — 76,836 ratings — published 8 — 1261 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 3.71 avg rating — 7,341 ratings — published 2 — 7 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 — 3,745 ratings — published -16 — 244 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) 3.40 avg rating — 3,467 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 — 2,490 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) 4.43 avg rating — 869 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 4.04 avg rating — 679 ratings — published 13 — 54 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 3.82 avg rating — 646 ratings — published -12	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 — 438 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) 3.87 avg rating — 436 ratings — published 2 — 48 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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“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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Metamorphoses, by Ovid (723 pages)

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7 votes, 18.9%

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