Ovid : Publius Ovidius Naso (43 BC- AD 17), Roman poet who influenced the imaginative interpretation of the classics of his time & its technical accomplishment.
... the rush and riot of full-blooded action. Seen from another angle, it is a fresh rendering of the Perseus-Andromeda myth, linking Sri Aurobindo with other interpreters of the myth like Euripides and Ovid, Corneille and Kingsley. Unlike Kingsley, whose Andromeda is but "romantic tinsel", Sri Aurobindo has retained all the old beauty and poetry and sense of mystery of the Hellenic myth, but has served... modem flavour and relevance and urgency. The theme is still the rescue of Andromeda from the sea-monster, but Sri Aurobindo's heroine is no passive helpless creature like the Andromeda of Euripides, Ovid and Kingsley, but a heroine in her own sovereign right of self-determined action. Paramount in her eyes are the laws of humanity and pity: these only she will acknowledge, these alone will guide her ...
... significance we have drawn from it for their name. To clinch our case for a wider location we may close with a reference to Virgil and Ovid, both of them writing in the 1st century A.D. as contemporaries of Diodorus. Ovid has the phrase: "terra Gangetis" ("the land of the Ganges"). It stands in general for India. Virgil, in his Georgics (111.26-27), writes: In foribus... category and representing India or the people of India. What is to be fixed in mind on taking Ovid and Virgil together is the common concept of the Gangetic as one wide whole of country and people. On account of the growing importance of the Ganges-region in the three centuries before Ovid and Virgil, the Gangetic as an extensive unity has become a synonym for the Indian. The amplification ...
... least By diagram upon a blackboard. BASIL Well, I will so, if it should hearten your weak spirits. And now I think of it, I am resolved I'll publish a new Art of Love, shall be The only Ovid memorable. ANTONIO Well, quickly teach Your diagram. Suppose your maid and win her. BASIL First, I would kiss her. ANTONIO What, without leave asked? BASIL Leave? Ask a... that was nothing either; I doubt if he found room for you, unless on the margin. Then he began drawing cheques on Olympus for comparisons, left that presently as antique and out of date, confounded Ovid and his breviary in the same quest; left that too for mediaeval, and diverged into Light and Heat, but came not to the very modernness of electricity. But Lord! Cousin, what a career he ran! He had ...
... Euripides, Virgil and Lucretius. These six, all things considered, are indeed greater than the brilliant sextet: Pindar, Simonides, Sappho, Horace, Catullus, Ovid. There need be no quarrel on this score. But does Page 20 Homer belong exactly to the same pychological plane as the others ...
... blackboard. Page 264 Basil: Well, I will so, if it should hearten your weak spirits. And now I think of it, I am resolved I'll publish a new Art of Love, shall be The only Ovid memorable. Antonio: On, on! Let's hear you. Basil: First, I would kiss her. Antonio: What, without leave asked? Basil: Leave? Ask a woman leave to kiss her! ...
... everybody. It is the phenomenon noted by Arjuna in his question to Krishna, "Why does one do evil, even though one wishes not to do it, as if compelled to it by force?", and expressed sententiously by Ovid, " video meliora proboque, Deteriora sequor ". 6 By constant effort and aspiration one can arrive at a turning point when the psychic asserts itself and what seems a very slight psychological change ...
... that the best way to achieve their aim was to bring in the greatness of classical harmony and the nobility and beauty of Greek and Latin utterance by naturalising the quantitative metres of Virgil, Ovid, Horace. It was also natural that some of these innovators should conceive that this could be best done by imposing the classical laws of quantity wholesale on the English language. At the first ...
... Omphis(Ambhi), 62.271 Ohesicritus, 146 Orissa, 485 Orodes, 201, 230 OSTN, 351 Page 634 Ossadioi or Assodioi, 425 Ouranos, 87 Ovid, 174 Oxus. 263, 455, 458, 459 Oxycanus, also called Porticanus, 63 Oxydrakai, 261 Ozéné, 476, 480.481, 520 Padmavati, 188, 189 Pahlavas, 530 Paijavana/Pijavana, 257 Palaeogoni ...
... metre. It is an imitation of poetry. Page 73 not the newly created expression of a present vision. It lacks what David Jones calls 'nowness'. Would Virgil have been impressed, or Ovid (not to speak of Homer) by some clever schoolboy or graduate's imitation of the Aeneid or the Iliad? There is an astonishing virtuosity (of course Aurobindo would have carried off the prize, whether ...
... imagination breaks bounds in Aeschylus, passion snaps the leash in Euripides and strange as well as violent themes are found in much Greek drama. Touches of the Romantic occur in Latin literature too - in Ovid "with his love-lorn heroines", Virgil "with his Messianic broodings and his passionate Dido", Catullus "the Roman Burns'', Propertius ''the Roman Rossetti'' . 7 In giving examples of Romantic ...
... to the text.) The plot of Perseus the Deliverer derives of course from the Greek legend of Perseus and Andromeda, the most important surviving classical source of which is the fourth book of Ovid's Metamorphoses . Notable among modern retellings of the story are Corneille's An dromede (1650) and Charles Kingsley's Andromeda (1859), a poem in English hexameters with which Sri Aurobindo was ...
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