Ovid

"The Fasti", a work structured on the Roman calendar, is believed to have been left incomplete when Ovid was exiled to Tomis by the emperor Augustus in 8 A.D. It is a series of elegiac couplets which present the first-hand accounts of vates, or "poet-prophets" with Roman deities regarding the origin of various Roman holidays and associated customs. The first six months of the year are all that is included in the work and it is unclear whether this...

"The first taste I had for books came to me from my pleasure in the fables of the Metamorphoses of Ovid. For at about seven or eight years of age I would steal away from any other pleasure to read them, inasmuch as this language was my mother tongue, and it was the easiest book I knew and the best suited by its content to my tender age." –Michel de Montaigne Remedia Amoris; or, The Remedy of Love (2 AD) is an instructional poem by Ovid. A sequel...

Ovid's Metamorphoses is one of the most influential works of Western literature, inspiring artists and writers from Titian to Shakespeare to Salman Rushdie. These are some of the most famous Roman myths as you've never read them before―sensuous, dangerously witty, audacious―from the fall of Troy to birth of the minotaur, and many others that only appear in the Metamorphoses. Connected together by the immutable laws of change and metamorphosis,...

A la fois drle et sérieux, découvrez l'un des plus vieux textes érotiques existants L'Art d'Aimer est une œuvre en vers écrite à Rome vers l'an 1 de notre ère. Elle demeure un des textes érotiques parmi les plus célèbres au monde. Le poète Ovide s'adresse à nous comme à des élèves, garçons et filles, auxquels il va enseigner l'art d'aimer et de séduire, d'abord aux hommes dans les deux premiers livres, puis aux femmes dans le dernier....

Ovids Lehrgedicht über die Kunst der Verführung gehört bis heute zu den berühmtesten und meistgelesenen Werken der antiken Literatur. Die ersten beiden Bücher enthalten Anweisungen für das Verhalten der Männer, das dritte solche für Frauen. Die "Ars amatoria" spiegelt das gesellschaftliche Leben der Kaiserzeit, in der die Liebe häufig als Spiel aufgefasst wurde. Kaiser Augustus hat das Werk aus den öffentlichen Bibliotheken verbannt.

"The Love Books of Ovid" is a collection of four works of Roman poet Ovid's verses on love in English prose translation. Ovid, born in 43 B.C., a contemporary of Virgil and Horace, lived during the reign of Augustus and is perhaps best remembered today for his work on Roman mythology entitled "The Metamorphoses". This volume collects the poet's following works: "The Loves", "The Art of Love", "Love's Cure", and "The Art of Beauty". Ovid was an innovator...

Auch 2000 Jahre nach der Niederschrift haben Ovids Versdichtungen nichts von ihrem Zauber verloren. Die vorliegende Auswahl erzählt vom Schicksal der klassischen Liebespaare der Antike: "Venus und Adonis", "Acis und Galatea", "Philemon und Baucis", "Scylla und Minos" und "Narcissus und Echo".

Ovide est né en -43 et mourut en l'an 17 de notre ère. Originaire de Sulmone, en Italie centrale, il avait étudié le droit et travaillé comme juriste avant de s'adonner à la poésie. Ses ¿uvres les plus connues et les plus célèbres sont Les Métamorphoses et L'Art d'aimer. Lors de sa sortie à Rome, il y a 2000 ans, L'Art d'aimer a été immédiatement populaire. Au XXIème siècle, L'Art d'aimer est encore joué au théâtre et son influence...

"The first taste I had for books came to me from my pleasure in the fables of the Metamorphoses of Ovid. For at about seven or eight years of age I would steal away from any other pleasure to read them, inasmuch as this language was my mother tongue, and it was the easiest book I knew and the best suited by its content to my tender age." –Michel de Montaigne Ars Amatoria; or, The Art of Love (2 AD) is an instructional poem by Ovid. Divided into...

CHARLES "LUCKY" LUCIANO was an Organization Man with a difference. The organization he belonged to was The Mafia-a natural setup for a vicious thug with unlimited ambition and a heart of ice. Murder by murder, rape by rape, he established the biggest chair of brothels ever seen in New York. Everything-everyone-he touched turned rotten. He knew he had it made when he had more cops on his payroll prostitutes. Pal of Al Capone, Frank Costello Buggsy...