Amores: elegías amatorias by Ovid

"Amores: elegías amatorias" by Ovid is a collection of elegiac poetry first published in 16 BC. This playful work chronicles a poet's pursuit of Corinna, an unattainable upper-class woman who may be entirely fictional. Through three books of elegies, Ovid subverts and exaggerates traditional Roman love poetry conventions to absurd effect, blending humor with romance. He compares lovers to soldiers, laments dyed hair, negotiates with doorkeepers, and celebrates poetry itself—all while questioning whether his passionate verses document real desire or simply showcase his mastery of the erotic elegy genre. (This is an automatically generated summary.)

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Author Ovid, 44 BCE-18?
LoC No. 42049782
Title Amores: elegías amatorias
Original Publication Spain: Librerías de Juan Mariana y Sanz, editor,1878.
Note Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amores_(Ovid) Wikipedia page about this book: es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amores_(Ovidio)
Credits Ramón Pajares Box and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (Biblioteca Nacional de España.)
Reading Level Reading ease score: 61.5 (8th & 9th grade). Neither easy nor difficult to read.
Language Spanish
LoC Class PA: Language and Literatures: Classical Languages and Literature
Subject Love poetry, Latin -- Translations into Spanish
Category Text
EBook-No. 68015
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Most Recently Updated Oct 18, 2024
Copyright Status Public domain in the USA.
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