'Any man who shows, with such poetic readability, that what is happening between the sexes today was happening two thousand years ago - and that, therefore, the beating out of one's guilt-ridden, female brains is something of a waste of time - has to be a hero' - Independent
Publius Ovidius Naso was born in Italy on 20 March 43 BC. He was
educated in Rome and worked as a public official before taking up
poetry full-time. His earliest surviving work is the collection of
love poems called the Amores, which was followed by the Heroides.
The Ars Amatoria (The Art of Love) and the Remedia Amoris (The Cure
for Love) were probably written between 2 BC and 2 AD. These were
followed by his two epic poems the Fasti and the Metamorphoses. In
8 AD Ovid fell out of favour with the Emperor Augustus due to a
'carmen et error' ('a poem and a mistake') and was banished to what
is now Romania. While in exile he wrote Tristia, Ibis and the
Epistulae ex Ponto which consists of letters appealing for help in
his efforts to be recalled to Rome. Ovid died in exile in 18
AD.
Tom Payne was born in 1971. He read Classics at Corpus Christi
College, Cambridge. For four years he was deputy literary editor of
the Daily Telegraph. He lives with his wife and three daughters in
Dorset, and teaches English and Classics at Sherborne School.
With its jaunty, cunning and infernally clever rhyming couplets,
Tom Payne's new translation is an utter treat from first to
last...a sparkling foreword by Hephzibah Anderson...this
effervescent Art of Love will be a lasting joy.
*Independent*
This sums Ovid up: Cerebral and sensual; but wit first
*Ruth Padel*
Rome's wittiest poet
*Independent on Sunday*
His wit, fluency and erotic treatises made him one of the most
influential writers of ancient times
*Independent*
Much of Ovid's advice would not go amiss today
*Guardian*
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