Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso), eminent Latin poet, is known for sparkling works on myth and love. He lived from 43 BGC to about 17 GC.
The myth of Pyramus and Thisbe, first written in Ovid’s Metamorphoses, developed to be acutely gender-polarized in Chaucer’s The Legend of Good Women. … Read the post Pyramus & Thisbe from Ovid’s gender subtlety to polarized Chaucer
The unique 11th-century Ovidian Versus Eporedienses describes a translatio from Troy to Pavia, not mainly politically, but for love of lovely women. … Read the post Versus Eporedienses playfully mythologized Pavia’s lovely women
Castration culture has long supported men being sexually abused and raped. Unlike men today, medieval men could at least curse vigorously in response. … Read the post medieval men cursed in response to being sexually abused & raped
The lai Conseil presents French as more courtly than Latin for schooling in love and responds to the scandalous love lessons of De nuntio sagaci. … Read the post lai Conseil elevated Latin rhetoric of De nuntio sagaci into French
With De tribus puellis, medieval Latin literature moved Helen and Paris beyond ancient epic horror and Ovid’s struggles. Love finally conquered in classics. … Read the post beauty contests: De tribus puellis no judgment of Paris