Ovid (Critical Survey of Poetry)
Other Literary Forms
Ovid composed a tragedy, Medea (before 8 c.e.), probably a rhetorical closet-drama in the manner of Seneca. Only two or three short fragments of this work remain.
Achievements
Without any hostility toward Vergil, Ovid led Roman poetry away from the manner and technique of epic poems such as the Aeneid (29-19 b.c.e.). Ovid was a poet of great talent whose works cover a vast range...
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