Love Poems, Letters, and Remedies of Ovid
Widely praised for his recent translations of Boethius and Ariosto, David R. Slavitt returns to Ovid, once again bringing to the contemporary ear the spirited, idiomatic, audacious charms of this master poet.
The love described here is the anguished, ruinous kind, for which Ovid was among the first to find expression. In the Amores, he testifies to the male experience, and in the companion Heroides—through a series of dramatic monologues addressed to absent lovers—he imagines how love goes for women. “You think she is ardent with you? So was she ardent with him,” cries Oenone to Paris. Sappho, revisiting the forest where she lay with Phaon, sighs, “The place / without your presence is just another place. / You were…
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May 3, 2011Ovid—Publius Ovidius Naso—(43 bce–ce 17 or 18) was born into a wealthy Roman family and became the most distinguished poet of his time. He died in exile on the Black Sea, far from Rome and his literary life.
Metamorphoses
Ovid; Translated by Stephanie McCarter
Metamorphoses
Ovid; Translated by David Raeburn; Introduction by Denis Feeney; Cover illustrated by Coralie Bickford-Smith
The Metamorphoses
Ovid; Translated by Allen Mandelbaum; Introduction by J. C. McKeown
The Metamorphoses
Ovid
Metamorphoses
Ovid;Knox Bernard
The Art of Love
Ovid
Fasti
Ovid
Heroides
Ovid
The Erotic Poems
Ovid
Metamorphoses
Ovid; Translated with an Introduction by Mary M. Innes
