Ovid

• Ovid was born in______: 43 B.C.

• Ovid died in______: 17 A.D.

• He wrote______: Witty and sophisticated love poems

• His full name was ______  known as Ovid in English speaking world: Publius Ovidius Naso

• He was a Roman Poet who lived during the reign of______: Augustus

• He was a contemporary of______: Virgil and Horace

• He is best known for______: Metamorphoses (AD 8), a 15 book continuous Mythological narrative written in the meter of Epic and for collections of love poetry in Elegiac Couplets, especially the Amores (Love Affairs) and Ars Amatoria (The Art of Love)

• ______ remains one of the most important sources of classical mythology: Metamorphoses

• He was the first major Roman poet to begin his career during the reign of______: Augustus

• The Fasti (Books of Days) is a six book ______ poem remained incomplete with Calendar structure: Latin

• “Tristia” and “Epistulae Ci Ponto” are two collection of elegies in the form of______: Complaining letters from his exile

• His shorter works include______: Remedia Amoris (Cure for Love), the Curse poem Ibis and an advice poem On Women’s Cosmetics

• He wrote a lost tragedy______: Medea

• The Heroides (Heroine) or Epistulae Heroidum is a collection of ______ poems in elegiac couplets: 21

• Tristia (Sorrow) consists of five books written during Ovid’s exile in______: Tomis

• Epistulae ex Ponto (Letters from the Black Sea) is a collection of ______ books: 4

• ______ banished Ovid to an isolated island and he died in exile: Augusts Caesar

Metamorphoses

• It is a narrative poem beginning with the creation of the world and ends in______: Ovid’s time

• It consists of adventures of love affairs of______: Deities and heroes

• More than 200 tales are taken from _____ Mythology, and these were the greatest source of Mythology for Renaissance writers: Greek and Roman