Ovid culture

Question 1

full name

Answer 1

Publius Ovidius Naso

Question 2

born

Answer 2

to a wealthy equestrian family at Sulmo in 43 BC

Question 3

died

Answer 3

17 AD

Question 4

Amores

Answer 4

first poems - romantic elegies chronicling his affairs with Corinna, a playful fiction constructed on the model of Catullus’ Lesbia

Question 5

Heroides

Answer 5

a collection of letters from famous literary heroines to their lovers or husbands

Question 6

Medicamina Feciei Femineae

Answer 6

“Medicine for the female face” - sprightly poem on cosmetics

Question 7

Ars Amatoria

Answer 7

“Art of love” - witty, occasionally risqué “manual of seduction” with two books of lessons for men and a third for women

Question 8

Remedia Amoris

Answer 8

follow up handbook with advice, clever and sometimes quite sensible on how to disentangle oneself from the snares of love

Question 9

Ovid

Answer 9

destroyer of poetry

Question 10

the Tristia and the Epistuale ex Ponto

Answer 10

exile poetry

Question 11

reason for getting exiled

Answer 11

a carmen and an error, carmen = Ars Amatoria, we don’t know what error is

Question 12

The Fasti

Answer 12

a poetic calendar in elegiac couplets, survives only in the six books composed for the first six months of the year

Question 13

The Metamorphoses

Answer 13

15 dactylic hexameter books weaved together with 250 tales of transformation, “a carmen perpetuum,” begins with the creation of the world out of Chaos - a quasi chronological series of myths of gods and men which culminates in the metamorphosis of Troy into Rome and Julius Caesar into a god and a fiery comet

Question 14

tone

Answer 14

varies from grand to grotesque