His poetry, much imitated during Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages, greatly influenced European art and literature and remains as one of the most important sources of classical mythology. He gave Ovid an excellent education, including study under great rhetoricians (masters of language and speech). His father was wealthy and intended for him to become a lawyer and an official. , at Sulmo (modern Sulmona), Italy, about ninety miles from Rome. The scholar Quintilian considered him the last of the canonical Latin love elegists. Ovid was born Publius Ovidius Naso on March 20, 43 B.C.E. He is considered a master of the elegiac couplet, and is traditionally ranked alongside Virgil and Horace as one of the three canonic poets of Latin literature. Ovid was also the author of several smaller pieces, the Remedia Amoris, the Medicamina Faciei Femineae, and the long curse-poem Ibis.
He is also well known for the Fasti, about the Roman calendar, and the Tristia and Epistulae ex Ponto, two collections of poems written in exile on the Black Sea. Publius Ovidius Naso, known as Ovid in the English-speaking world, was a Roman poet who is best known as the author of the three major collections of poetry, the Heroides, Amores and Ars Amatoria, and of the Metamorphoses, a mythological hexameter poem. Freebase Rate this definition: 4.0 / 1 vote
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