Later Republican writers, such as Lucretius, Catullus and even Cicero, wrote their own compositions in the meter and it was at this time that many of the principles of Latin hexameter were firmly established, ones that would govern later writers such as Virgil, Ovid, Lucan, and Juvenal.

Ovid wrote a guide to dating called Ars Amatoria ( The Art of Love ), which addresses, in depth, everything from extramarital affairs to overprotective parents.

Ovid wrote that the river flowed through the cave of Hypnos, god of sleep, where its murmuring would induce drowsiness.

Ovid also wrote the Fasti, which describes Roman festivals and their legendary origins.

He wrote in a colloquial style far from the codified form of Latin that is found in Ovid or Virgil.

Additionally, Ovid wrote that Mercury carried Morpheus ' dreams from the valley of Somnus to sleeping humans.

The Roman poet Ovid wrote the following about the phoenix:

Some authors, such as Ovid in his Metamorphoses and Ars amatoria, wrote a different end for Herse and Aglauros.

According to the Roman poet Ovid, who wrote about transformations in his Metamorphoses, Iphis ( or Iphys ) was the daughter of Telethusa and Ligdus in Crete.

In 1997 American poet Frank Bidart wrote Desire, which was another retelling of the myth of Myrrha as it was presented in the Metamorphoses by Ovid.

Ovid wrote that the fountain was in the middle of the Temple of Venus Genetrix and surrounded by statues of nymphs who were called " The Appiades " ( plural form of Appias ).

He survived Tibullus ( d. 19 BC ), but was no longer alive when Ovid wrote ( c. AD 12 ) the epistle from Pontus ( E Ponto, iv.

Later, Ovid wrote the " Ars Amatoria ," which describes in a mock-didactic form how to seduce women.

A minor Classical-era composer, Karl Ditters von Dittersdorf, wrote a series of symphonies based on Ovid's Metamorphoses ( not to be confused with Twentieth-Century composer Benjamin Britten's Six Metamorphoses after Ovid ).

Ovid expresses his love and admiration for her lavishly in the poetry he wrote during his exile.

Ovid even wrote a poem about the correct application of makeup.

Hardy wrote quickly, often adapting plays from French, foreign and classical sources ( Ovid, Lucian, Plutarch, Xenophon, Quintus Curtius Rufus, Josephus, Miguel de Cervantes, Jorge de Montemayor, Boccaccio, François de Rosset ).

He wrote Theseis, referred to in a letter from his friend Ovid, epigrams which are commended by Martial and an epic poem on the exploits of Germanicus.

Niccolò Jommelli wrote an opera Fetonte to an Italian-language libretto by Mattia Verazi using various sources, principally Ovid, for the myth of Phaeton.

The subject matter is often sexual: fabliau is concerned with the elements of love left out by poets who wrote in the more elevated genres such as Ovid, who suggests in the Ars Amatoria ( II. 704-5 ) that the Muse should not enter the room where the lovers are in bed ; and Chrétien de Troyes, who maintains silence on the exact nature of the joy discovered by Lancelot and Guinevere in Le Chevalier de la Charrette ( 4676-4684 ).

Notably, Catullus and Ovid wrote in non-elegiac meters as well, but Propertius and Tibullus did not.

One of the damning bits of evidence came from John Dennis, who wrote of Theobald's Ovid: " There is a notorious Ideot.

The poet Ovid, who wrote during the reign of Augustus, records the best-known myth that explains the association of the cypress with grief.

The Latin generic name " Byblis " originates from a goddess from Greek mythology, of whom Ovid wrote in his Metamorphoses ( IX, l. 454-664 ).

According to Quintilian ( 10. 1. 58 ) he was the chief of the elegiac poets ; his elegies were highly esteemed by the Romans ( see Neoterics ), and imitated by Ovid, Catullus, and especially Sextus Propertius.

Her poetry consists of three elegies in the style of the Heroides of Ovid, and twenty-four sonnets that draw on the traditions of Neoplatonism and Petrarchism.

* Several elegies from Ovid with the second and third eclogues of Virgil in a collection of ‘ Miscellany Poems ,’ 1684.

This official " air-brushing from history " may imply punitive internal exile to a remote location, similar to that inflicted on the contemporary poet, Ovid, who in AD 8, for an unknown offence, was ordered by Augustus to spend the rest of his life in Tomis ( Constanţa ) on the Black Sea.

The related concept of political exile also has a long history: Ovid was sent to Tomis ; Voltaire was sent to England.

Much of the surviving information about the Scythians comes from the Greek historian Herodotus ( c. 440 BC ) in his Histories and Ovid in his poem of exile Epistulae ex Ponto, and archaeologically from the exquisite goldwork found in Scythian burial mounds in Ukraine and Southern Russia.

Latin poet Ovid refers to the birthday of him and his brother with party and cake in his first book of exile, Tristia.

From his later place of exile, where he was sent for an unnamed offense against Augustus having to do with free speech, Ovid lamented the lost companionship of his fellow poets, who apparently saw the Liberalia as an opportunity for uninhibited talking.

Ovid produced three collections of verse epistles, composed in elegiac couplets: the Heroides, letters written in the person of legendary women to their absent lovers ; and the Tristia and Ex Ponto, written in first person during the poet's exile.

The latter canto is notable for Pound's suggestion that both Honoré Mirabeau in his imprisonment and Ovid in his exile " had it worse " than Pound in his incarceration.

The Roman poet Ovid, during his long exile in Tomis, is asserted to have written poetry ( now lost ) in the Getic language.

The Tristia (" Sorrows " or " Lamentations ") is a collection of letters written in elegiac couplets by the Augustan poet Ovid during his exile from Rome.

In addition to the Tristia, Ovid wrote another collection of elegiac epistles on his exile, the Epistulae ex Ponto.

The plea was unsuccessful ; Ovid would live out the remainder of his years in exile among the Thracian Getae.

Ibis is a curse poem by the Latin poet Ovid, written during his years in exile across the Black Sea for an offense against Augustus.

Drawing on the encyclopedic store of knowledge he demonstrated in the Metamorphoses and his other work — from memory, as he had few books with him in exile — Ovid threatens his enemy with a veritable catalogue of " gruesome and mutually incompatible fates " that befell various figures from myth and history, including a Thyestean banquet of human flesh.

In 1821, during his exile in Odessa, Alexander Pushkin wrote a belated " response " to the Latin poet, entitled To Ovid.

It tells the story of the Roman poet Ovid, during his exile in Tomis.