ClSt / ComL 200, "Classical Mythology"

Lecture notes for Monday, March 22, 1999

Introduction to Ovid

Ovid's Career

Born 43 BC

Amores ("Love Poems") c. 18 BC, AD 1 (?)
Ars Amatoria ("The Art of Love"), 1 BC-AD 1
Remedia Amoris ("The Cure for Love") 1 BC- AD 1
Epistulae Heroidum or Heroides ("Letters from Heroines" or "Heroines"), 15 BC, AD 4-8 (?)

Metamorphoses ("Transformations"), AD 2-8 (?)
Fasti ("Calendar"), AD 2-17

Relegated to Tomi, AD 8

Tristia ("Sorrows"), AD 8-12
Ibis, AD 11-12
Epistulae ex Ponto ("Letters from the Black Sea"), AD 13-17

Died AD 17/18
 

Structural comparison: Apollodorus' Library and Ovid's Metamorphoses