Heroides OvidPevná vazba
Heroides OvidPevná vazba Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso, 43 BCE-17 CE), born at Sulmo, studied rhetoric and law at Rome. Famous at first, he offended the emperor Augustus by his Ars Amatoria, and was…
Specifikacia Heroides OvidPevná vazba
Heroides OvidPevná vazba
Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso, 43 BCE-17 CE), born at Sulmo, studied rhetoric and law at Rome. 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.
He died in exile.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 He continued writing poetry, a kindly man, leading a temperate life.