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Ovid


 

:For other uses, see Ovid (disambiguation)

Works

Existing and generally considered authentic, with approximate dates of publication

  • (10 BC) Amores ('The Loves'), 5 books, about "Corinna", anti-marriage (revised into 3 books ca. AD 1)
  • (5 BC) Heroides ('The Heroines') or Epistulae Heroidum ('Letters of Heroines'), 21 letters (letters 16–21 were composed around AD 4 - 8)
  • (5 BC) Remedium Amoris ('The Cure for Love'), 1 book
  • (5 BC) Medicamina Faciei Femineae ('Women's Facial Cosmetics' or 'The Art of Beauty'), 100 lines surviving
  • (2 BC) Ars Amatoria ('The Art of Love'), 3 books (the third written somewhat later)
  • (AD 8) Metamorphoses ('Transformations'), 15 books
  • (9) Ibis, a single poem
  • (10) Tristia ('Sorrows'), 5 books
  • (10) Epistulae ex Ponto ('Letters from the Black Sea'), 4 books
  • (12) Fasti ('Festivals'), 6 books surviving which cover the first 6 months of the year and provide unique information on the Roman calendar

Lost or generally considered spurious

  • Medea, a lost tragedy about Medea
  • a poem in Getic, the language of Dacia where Ovid was exiled, not extant (and possibly fictional)
  • Nux ('The Walnut Tree')
  • Consolatio ad Liviam ('Consolation to Livia')
  • Haleutica ('On Fishing') - generally considered spurious, a poem that some have identified with the otherwise lost poem of the same name written by Ovid.