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praised for his recent translations of Boethius and Ariosto, David R, Slavitt returns to Ovid, once again bringing to the contemporary ear the spirited, idiomatic, audacious charms of this master poet,

The love described here is the anguished, ruinous kind, for which Ovid was among the first to find expression,

In the Amores, he testifies to the male experience, and in the companion Heroidesthrough a series of dramatic monologues addressed to absent lovershe imagines how love goes for women.
"You think she is ardent with you So was she ardent with him," cries Oenone to Paris, Sappho, revisiting the forest where she lay with Phaon, sighs, "The place / without your presence is just another place, / You were what made it magic, " The Remedia Amoris sees love as a sickness, and offers curative advice: "The beginning is your best chance to resist" "Try to avoid onions, / imported or domestic.
And arugula is bad. / Whatever may incline your body to Venus / keep away from, " The voices of men and women produce a volley of extravagant laments over love's inconstancy and confusions, as though elegance and vigor of expression might compensate for heartache.


Though these love poems come to us across millennia, Slavitt's translations, introduced by Pulitzer Prize winner Michael Dirda, ensure that their sentiments have not faded with the passage of time.
They delight us with their wit, even as we weep a little in recognition, i can't believe something so old could make me laugh out loud David Slavitt is sometimes criticized for improvising too much and not being quite accurate in his translations.
True, but in the case of Ovid he seems to be exactly on the right wave length, This is an amazing version, particularly of the Amores, with a tone, sophistication, delicacy, and delight that sound to me exactly like the original, even if it isn't strictly wordforword accurate.
Publius Ovidius NasoMarchBCE CE/, known as Ovid /ˈɒvɪd/ in the English speaking world, was a Roman poet best known for the Metamorphoses, abook continuous mythological narrative written in the meter of epic, and for collections of love poetry in elegiac couplets, especially the As Love Affairs and Ars Amatoria Art of Love.
His poetry was much imitated during Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages, and greatly influenced Western art and literature, The Metamorphoses remains one of the most important sources of classical mythology, Ovid is traditionally ranked alongside Virgil and Horace, his older contemporaries, as one of the three canonic poets of Latin literature, He was the first major Roman poet to begin hi Publius Ovidius NasoMarchBCE CE/, known as Ovid /ˈɒvɪd/ in the English speaking world, was a Roman poet best known for the Metamorphoses, abook continuous mythological narrative written in the meter of epic, and for collections of love poetry in elegiac couplets, especially the As "Love Affairs" and Ars Amatoria "Art of Love".
His poetry was much imitated during Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages, and greatly influenced Western art and literature, The Metamorphoses remains one of the most important sources of classical mythology, Ovid is traditionally ranked alongside Virgil and Horace, his older contemporaries, as one of the three canonic poets of Latin literature, He was the first major Roman poet to begin his career during the reign of Augustus, and the Imperial scholar Quintilian considered him the last of the Latin love elegists.
He enjoyed enormous popularity, but in one of the mysteries of literary history he was sent by Augustus into exile in a remote province on the Black Sea, where he remained until his death.
Ovid himself attributes his exile to carmen et error, "a poem and a mistake", but his discretion in discussing the causes has resulted in much speculation among scholars.
Ovid's prolific poetry includes the Heroides, a collection of verse epistles written as by mythological heroines to the lovers who abandoned them the Fasti, an incomplete six book exploration of Roman religion with a calendar structure and the Tristia and Epistulae ex Ponto, two collections of elegies in the form of complaining letters from his exile.
His shorter works include the Remedia Amoris "Cure for Love", the curse poem Ibis, and an advice poem on women's cosmetics, He wrote a lost tragedy, Medea, and mentions that some of his other works were adapted for staged performance, See also sitelink Ovide. sitelink.