Ovid
historical figure · 7 works · 12 mentions · 14 anchored passages · author page
in the texts
The Rights of War and Peace
Roman poet cited on animal instincts of defense and on the right to bear arms against aggressors.
In a fragment of Ovid’s, called the Art of Fishery, it is remarked, that all animals know their enemy and his means of defence, and the strength and measure of their own weapons.
Ovid introduces Latona thus addressing the Lydians, “why do you refuse water, the use of which is common?
A meaning not ill expressed by Ovid in the second book of his Metamorphoses, where the promiser says to him, to whom he had promised, “My word has become yours.
Institutes of Roman Law
Roman poet cited to illustrate the meaning of 'jus' in the phrase jus belli.
That this was one of the many meanings of the word appears from Ovid, who uses the following terms to express a want of self-control:
’ The purple-edged praetexta was generally laid aside by boys along with the bulla aurea which they wore round their neck, on the first Liberalia, the 17th March, Ovid, Fasti, 3, 771, after the completion of their fourteenth year.
The Freedom of the Seas (Mare Liberum)
Roman poet cited three times on ownership, commerce, and common natural gifts.
This state of things is described thus by the poets Vergil and Ovid:
In still another place, as Hermogenianus points out, Ovid praises commerce, for the sake of which:
The second is, that all that which has been so constituted by nature that although serving some one person it still suffices for the common use of all other persons, is today and ought in perpetuity to remain in the same condition as when it was first created by nature.
Letters to Lucilius
Roman poet cited for coining a phrase describing lesser tutelary deities
Set aside for the present the view that pleases certain people, that to each of us a god is given as a tutor, not indeed of the regular order, but one of a lower rank, of the number of those whom Ovid calls "the gods of the commons.
Whether Ovid had already treated the subject was no hindrance to Virgil's doing it.
On Benefits
Roman poet cited for a line about a woman's feigned chastity
Father Liber, because he is the parent of all things, by whom first the force of seeds was discovered to provide for life through pleasure;
Adversus Valentinianos
Roman poet referenced as author of the Metamorphoses, invoked satirically
They are all refounded into Nuses, into Anthropoi, into Theleti—the females equally into Siges, into Zoes, into Ecclesias, into Fortunatas—so that Ovid would have deleted his own Metamorphoses, had he known a greater one today.
The Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana
Classical Roman poet invoked as part of the lineage of Western writers on love.
This work may fairly be pronounced unique from the days of Sotades and Ovid to our time.