Yet the malicious critic of the Heroides will be hard to find for they belong to the engaging sort of art which disarms criticism. The critic who cares more for the raising of a laugh than for the strict rendering of justice may with no great difficulty find room here for the exercise of his wit. The heroines and heroes who speak it are creatures from the world of legend, are not always warm flesh and blood, and rarely communicate their passions to us.
Their language, nearly always artificial, frequently rhetorical, and often diffuse, is the same throughout-whether from the lips of barbarian Medea or Sappho the poetess. The Heroides are not a work of the highest order’ of genius. His works, all published in Penguin Classics, include Amores, a collection of short love poems Heroides, verse-letters written by mythological heroines to their lovers Ars Amatoria, a satirical handbook on love and Metamorphoses, his epic work that has inspired countless writers and artists through the ages.Ovid’s Life In Appreciation of The Heroides Coming from a wealthy Roman family and seemingly destined for a career in politics, he held minor official posts before leaving public service to write, becoming the most distinguished poet of his time. Ovid (43BC-18AD) was born at Sulmo (Sulmona) in central Italy. While in exile he wrote Tristia, Ibis and the Epistulae ex Ponto which consists of letters appealing for help in his efforts to be recalled to Rome. In 8 AD Ovid fell out of favour with the Emperor Augustus due to a ' carmen et error' ('a poem and a mistake') and was banished to what is now Romania. These were followed by his two epic poems the Fasti and the Metamorphoses. The Ars Amatoria ( The Art of Love) and the Remedia Amoris ( The Cure for Love) were probably written between 2 BC and 2 AD. His earliest surviving work is the collection of love poems called the Amores, which was followed by the Heroides.
He was educated in Rome and worked as a public official before taking up poetry full-time. Publius Ovidius Naso was born in Italy on 20 March 43 BC.
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