Amores (Ovid)
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Amores is Ovid's first completed book of poetry, written in elegiac couplets. It was first published in 16 BC in five books, but Ovid, by his own account, later edited it down into the three-book edit
The Roman poet Ovid, born in the city.
A panorama of Sulmona
"CORINNA (THE LYRIC MUSE)" "WILLIAM BRODIE" from -Sculptures of Andromeda, the Toilet of Atalanta, Corinna, and a Naiad- MET DP323119 (cropped)
Herculaneum – Lyre and Cupids
Tibullus
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Albius Tibullus was a Latin poet and writer of elegies. His first and second books of poetry are extant; many other texts attributed to him are of questionable origins.
Amores (Ovid)
…it down into the three-book edition that survives today. The book follows the popular model of the erotic elegy, as made famous by figures such as Tibullus or Propertius, but is often subversive and humorous with these tropes, exaggerating common motifs and devices to the point of absurdity. While several…
Lawrence Alma-Tadema, Tibullus at Delia's