by Ovidio · tapa dura · ISBN 9788424925529
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This book contains 'Letters of the Heroines', where Ovid created a new literary genre, the epistolary elegy, and 'Ibis', a brilliant display of invective. The 'Letters of the Heroines' are love poems in the form of letters addressed by heroines to their absent lovers or husbands. Together, they are analyses of loving feelings from the female perspective, extending this mentality to characters from Greek epic and tragedy. 'Ibis' is a poem in elegiac verses, an imprecation against an unidentified enemy, mentioning terrible destinies suffered by mythical and historical characters.
Publius Ovidius Naso, known in English as Ovid, was a Roman poet who lived during the reign of Augustus. He was a younger contemporary of Virgil and Horace, 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 carmen et error, but his reluctance to disclose specifics has resulted in much speculation among scholars.
