Concept
Ovid
Overview
Roman poet (43 BC – 17/18 AD)
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MAZARIN, JULES, cardinal, and first minister of Louis XIV. (1602–61). NABIS, Spartan tyrant, died B.C. 192, noted for his cruelty. NERO, Roman emperor, born A.D. 37, died 67. OCTAVIUS, became Emperor Augustus. OVIDIUS PUBLIUS NASO (Ovid), Roman poet, B.C. 43–A.D. 18, enjoyed the patronage of Augustus until banished A.D. 8. Chief works—_Amores_, _De Arte Amandi_, _Fasti_.
David Hume, Hume's Political Discourses
Names Ovid.
"The heart is often affected, moreover, to the advantage of different, but especially of social and refined virtues, and the more tender sentiments are excited and unfolded in it. Many touches, in particular, will impress themselves, which give the young reader an insight into the more hidden corner of the human heart and its passions--a knowledge which is more worth than all Latin and Greek, and of which Ovid was a…
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, The Autobiography of Goethe Truth and Poetry
Names Ovid twice.
Another is termed Allegorical, and it is that which is concealed under the veil of fables, and is a Truth concealed under a beautiful Untruth; as when Ovid says that Orpheus with his lute made the wild beasts tame, and made the trees and the stones to follow him, which signifies that the wise man with the instrument of his voice makes cruel hearts gentle and humble, and makes those follow his will who have not the…
Dante Alighieri, The Banquet
States what Ovid is; the author is tied to Ovid in the knowledge graph.
Philosophers who discussed Ovid
- Avicenna
- Lucian
- Pythagoras
- Harold Bloom
- Sappho
- Michel de Montaigne
- Bernard Williams
- Seneca the Younger
- Dante Alighieri
- Fernando Pessoa
Related ideas
- Meta (prefix)
- Random House Webster's Unabridged Dictionary
- Francis Bacon
- Stanford University Press
- Grammar
- Geoffrey Chaucer
- Herodotus
- Homer
- Hesiod
- Heracles
- Italy
- James Joyce
- Julius Caesar
- Jesuits
- John Milton
- Essays (Montaigne)
- Language
- Latin
- London
- Leipzig
- Latin literature
- Lactantius
- Middle Ages
- Moscow
Opposing perspectives
Place in the tradition
Part of Consequentialism.