Amores (Ovid)
16 BC Roman book by Ovid / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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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 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 literary scholars have called the Amores a major contribution to Latin love elegy,[1][2] they are not generally considered among Ovid's finest works[3] and "are most often dealt with summarily in a prologue to a fuller discussion of one of the other works".[4]