The Loeb Classical Library edition of Ovid is in six volumes. Poetry came naturally to Ovid, who at his best is lively, graphic and lucid. This is Julian Mays translation of Ovids erotic works: The Amores ( the Loves ), Ars Amatoria ( the Art of Love ), Remedia Amoris ( The Cure for Love ). The Third book gives advice to women win the love of a man, and keep it. The first two books aim to teach men how to find and keep a woman. 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. The Art of Love is an instructional text on the subject of love written by the ancient poet Ovid. The fact about Ovid's life that came to define him was his banishment in 8 CE to Tomi by the Roman Emperor Augustus. Between the publications of Amores and Metamorphoses, Ovid was married three times and fathered a daughter. He continued writing poetry, a kindly man, leading a temperate life. Soon thereafter came The Art of Love, and in a six-year period between 2 and 8 CE, Ovid penned Metamorphoses. 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. Later he did considerable public service there, and otherwise devoted himself to poetry and to society. Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso, 43 BCE–17 CE), born at Sulmo, studied rhetoric and law at Rome.
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