Ovid, first poet of the new age of Imperial Rome, died in A.D. 17 at the Greek settlement of Tomi on the western shore of the Black Sea. Most of what is known of his life derives from his poem Tristia (Sorrows, 4.10) written during the grim final years...

Ovid (43 BC-ca. AD 18) was a Roman elegiac and epic poet. His verse is distinguished by its easy elegance and sophistication. Ovid whose full name was Publius Ovidius Naso, was born on March 20, 43 B.C., at Sulmo (modern Sulmona) about 90 miles from...

. When the name of the sophisticated Roman poet of the Augustan age is mentioned in conjunction with medieval France, most scholars think of the Ovide moralisé, a text from the first half of the 14th century. In fact, Ovid’s works—from...

. Throughout the Middle Ages, Ovid was read, glossed, imitated, and translated. It is not surprising that the 12th century, the aetas Ovidiana, should have produced, among other works based on Ovid, French versions of some of his Metamorphoses. Those...

. Paray-le-Monial (Saône-et-Loire) is a Romanesque priory belonging to Cluny III, the mother church of the Cluniac order, and located some 13 miles west of Cluny. The design of Paray-le-Monial is based directly on that of Cluny III, yet the sizes...

Publius Ovidius Naso (March 20, 43 BC – 17 AD) was a Roman poet known to the English-speaking world as Ovid who wrote on many topics, including love, abandoned women and mythological transformations. Ranked alongside Virgil and Horace as one of the...

Monarch Notes 01-01-1963 Latin Poetry: Ovid Life 43 B.C. - 18 A.D. Publius Ovidius Naso was born in Sulmo, east of Rome, the very year after Julius Caesar had died (43 B.C.). His mother was a noblewoman. His father had him educated to become...

Ovid Technologies, Inc. has announced a new content product, Books@Ovid, which is the follow-up to its Journals@Ovid product. In a separate news release, Ovid announced a new software product, Ovid OpenLinks Toolkit, to enhance the value of customers' Ovid bibliographic database subscriptions. ...

Diane Middlebrook, a leading feminist scholar who wrote acclaimed biographies of poets Anne Sexton and Sylvia Plath, died Saturday. She was 68.Middlebrook, who helped launch feminist studies at Stanford University, where she taught literature for 35 years, died of cancer in San Francisco, according to...

Security forces blocked roads leading into the center of Guinea's capital Monday as the West African country's biggest unions staged a strike and demanded the president step down.It followed rioting Saturday in which at least 11 people died, according to medical officials and witnesses. Local...

In the following essay, Lyne discusses Shakespeare's use of Ovid in The Tempest, distinguishing between imitation and allusion as modes of adapting his stories. Lyne reads The Tempest as intertextual dialogue, not only between Shakespeare and Ovid, but also including Golding as translator.

Life of Ovid