In the didactic poetry of Face Cosmetics, Art of Love, and Remedies for Love, Ovid (43 BCE 17 CE) demonstrates abstrusity and wit. His Ibis is an elegiac curse-poem. Nux, Halieutica, and Consolatio ad Liviam are poems now judged not to be by Ovid.
In the didactic poetry of Face Cosmetics, Art of Love, and Remedies for Love, Ovid (43 BCE 17 CE) demonstrates abstrusity and wit. His Ibis is an eleg...
Valerius Flaccus flourished c. 70 90 BCE and composed an incomplete epic Argonautica in eight books, on the quest for the golden fleece. Valerius effectively rehandles the story already told by Apollonius Rhodius, recalls Virgilian language and thought, displays learning, and alludes to contemporary Rome.
Valerius Flaccus flourished c. 70 90 BCE and composed an incomplete epic Argonautica in eight books, on the quest for the golden fleece. Valerius effe...
