Amores

About “Amores”

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 later edited it down to a three-book edition. The work follows the model of the erotic elegy, a style popularized by poets like Tibullus and Propertius. However, Amores often subverts these traditional themes with humor and exaggeration, pushing common motifs to the point of absurdity. It is a first-century BCE collection of poetry in Latin by Ovid. (Summary adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.)