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APPENDIX OF AUTHORS AND WORKS<br />

Bailey, Propertiana (Cambridge 1956); G. Luck, A.J.Ph. 100 (1979) 73-93. (5)<br />

MANUSCRIPTS: A. E. Housman, J.Ph. 21 (1893) 101-97, <strong>and</strong> 22 (1894) 84-128 =<br />

Classical papers 232—304, 315—47.<br />

CONCORDANCE: B. Schmeisser (Hildesheim 1972).<br />

OVID1US NASO, PUBLIUS<br />

LIFE<br />

b. 20 March 43 B.C. at Sulmona (Abruzzi), of equestrian family. Sent to Rome as a boy<br />

to study rhetoric under Arellius Fuscus <strong>and</strong> Porcius Latro. Visited Athens <strong>and</strong> travelled<br />

in Greek l<strong>and</strong>s. Held minor judicial posts, but ab<strong>and</strong>oned official career for literature;<br />

cultivated society of poets, esp. those in circle of M. Valerius Messalla Corvinus. Thrice<br />

married. In A.D. 8 banished by Augustus on account of the Ars Amatoria <strong>and</strong> another<br />

cause, never specified, to Tomis (mod. Constanja, Romania), where he d. A.D. 17.<br />

Main source for life his own works, esp. Trist. 4.10; also Sen. Contr. 2.2.8—12, 9.5.17<br />

(rhetorical studies); Jerome, Chron. (death; cf. Ovid, Fast. 1.223—4 <strong>and</strong> Bomer, under<br />

Commentaries below, ad loc."); R. Syme, History in Ovid (Oxford 1978). On his official<br />

career see E. J. <strong>Kenney</strong>, Y. Cl. S. 21 (1969) 244-9; on his exile J. C. Thibault, The<br />

mystery of Ovid's exile (Berkeley 1964).<br />

WORKS<br />

(1) EXTANT: (All in elegiac couplets except MetS) Amores: three books totalling fifty<br />

elegies (15+20 + 15); in this form pubd shortly before Ars Am. (q.v.). Heroides or<br />

Epistulae Heroidum (G. Luck, Die romische Liebeselegie (Heidelberg 1961) 223—4):<br />

single letters (1—14) pubd between the two edd. of the Amores (Am. 2.18); double<br />

(16-21) written before A.D. 8 but possibly not pubd until after O.'s death. For Ep.<br />

Sapph. (15) see under (3) below. Medicamina Faciei Femineae: fragment of 100 w. on<br />

cosmetics, pubd. before Ars Am. 3 (ibid. 205—6). Ars Amatoria (see Sen. Contr. 3.7,<br />

GJLK v 473.5): bks 1-2 pubd not before 1 B.C. {Ars Am. 1.1716".), bk 3 added later<br />

(Ars Am. 2.745—6). Remedia Amoris: mock recantation in one book; no indication of<br />

date. (On the chronology of the early works see discussion <strong>and</strong> previous literature<br />

cited by H. Jacobson, Ovid's Heroides (Princeton 1974) 300—18; Syme, under Life<br />

above, 1—20.) Metamorphoses: epic in fifteen books of hexameters; substantially<br />

complete by A.D. 8. Fasti: calendar poem planned in twelve books, one per month;<br />

only bks 1—6 (Jan.—June) completed by A.D. 8, but some revision at Tomis (Fast.<br />

1.3, 2.15). Tristia: bks 1, 3—5 are made up of short poems to various addressees (unnamed<br />

except for his wife <strong>and</strong> Augustus); bk 2 is a single continuous poem, an apologia<br />

for his poetry addressed to Augustus. Individual books sent to Rome at intervals during<br />

A.D. 9—12. Epistulae ex Ponto: as Trist. 1, 3—5, but to named addressees. Bks 1—3<br />

855<br />

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