Dec 24, 2009

Ovid | Ovid

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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.

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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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Ovid | Ovid

Other Literary Forms

Achievements

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