Amores (Cyclopedia of Literary Characters)
At a glance:
- Author: Ovid
- First Published: 20
- Type of Work: Poetry
- Type of Plot: Erotic
- Time of Work: Augustan Age
- Setting: Rome
- Genres: Poetry, Erotic literature, Lyric sequence
- Subjects: Husbands, Wives, Love or romance, Sex or sexuality, Adultery, Women, Abortion, Greek or Roman times, Rome, Erotica
- Locales: Rome, Italy, Rome, ancient
Characters Discussed
The speaker, who is never named; some argue that he should be distinguished from Ovid. This first-person narrator is a Roman poet born in Sulmo, as Ovid was, and in several poems he argues the case for the erotic elegy. The speaker or persona in the poems is a young man who enjoys making love and playing at love, but he is not serious about much of anything, except, presumably, his poetry, in which he has considerable confidence. He is a sexual athlete, but he is frank about his shortcomings. His romantic liaisons often are thwarted by a mistress’s...
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