Ovid's Works

Ovid's dates: 20 March 43 BC -- AD 17

Amores ('Loves'): 3 books, total of 49 elegies (published first in 5 books sometime after 20 BC; published a second time ca. AD 1 in three books)

Heroides ('Heroines'): 21 elegiac 'letters' (published 15 BC)

Medea: tragedy, now entirely lost

Medicamina Faciei Femineae ('Cosmetics or the Art of Makeup'): fragment of 100 lines, pub. before Ars Amatoria 3

Ars Amatoria ('Art of Love'): Books1-2 pub 1 BC or later; Bk. 3 added later

Remedia Amoris ('Cures for Love'): no date known

Metamorphoses: epic in 15 books of hexameters; completed pretty much by AD 8

Fasti ('Calendars'): calendar poem planned for 12 books; Books 1-6 completed by AD 8, some revision at Tomi

Tristia ('Sadnesses'): Bks. 1, 3-5 short poems to various addressees, unnamed except for his wife and Augustus. Individual books sent to Rome at intervals during AD 9-12; Bk. 2 a single continuous poem, an apologia for his poetry addressed to Augustus

Epistulae ex Ponto ('Letters from Pontus'): short poems to named addresses, 4 books, Bk. 4 being published probably posthumously

Ibis: short, invective poem (AD 11)