The Loeb Classical Library: Tristia. Ex Ponto

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The Loeb Classical Library: Tristia. Ex PontoOvid (Publius Ovidius Naso, 43 BCAD 17), born at Sulmo, studied rhetoric and law at Rome. Later he did considerable public service there, and otherwise devoted himself to poetry and to society. Famous at first, he offended the emperor Augustus by his Ars amatoria, and was banished because of this work and some other reason unknown to us, and dwelt in the cold and primitive town of Tomis on the Black Sea. He continued writing poetry, a kindly man,

He applies a passion for accuracy and a contempt for myth and romance in compiling a factual record of a ruinous conflict that would eventually destroy the Athenian empire

που το διακρίνει μελαγχολία βαθιά και λυτρωτική

These are followed by longer passages with scansion exercises and questions on comprehension and stylistic analysis

Είναι ο Ιωάννης

featuring text particularly appropriate for struggling and reluctant readers

A subject index and indexes of important Greek and Latin words conclude each volume

her destruction of Carthage

and an index

The play is at once a political satire and also

and that his odes were indeed carmina: songs

and then proceeds to treat of the signs of the zodiac and the twelve temples

the purpose of children

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