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Latin 4 was Ovid and Vigil, so I've read both, long, long, LONG ago, in Latin and translated it to English. Both great writers!
This should have been a good thread; however, the vast majority posted utter, juvenile CRAP!
FR is now such a damned useless mess. :-(
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Ancient beer goggles bump.
LOL
Or, as the Romans could have called it, ‘wine goggles’.
Ooh, great prank! Wish I’d thought of that years ago. Now their business cards have the phone number for the assisted living home.
:^)
Thanks!
Bob Dylan - Beyond Here Lies Nothin’
(Explicit) (Official HD Video)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7TbmP2vXeQs
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beyond_Here_Lies_Nothin‘
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VjqCkIzT3fM
Those That We Love
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m750pN5kc_c
While you’re explaining what you mean, pull my finger. 😜
The thing is, people don't change, human nature and needs don't change, and even when something is written 1,000 years ago, some things/feelings remain the same. Ergo, good advice for long ago, whether it is 100 years ago or even much more ( wear clean clothes, make sure you've brushed your teeth and combed your hair, don't get drunk and try to pick someone up in dim light, know how to make interesting conversation, don't be rude nor lewd ) still make a lot of sense.
If I were so inclined, it wasn't so late, and my copy of Ovid wasn't on a top shelf in the library and I am disinclined to go get it, I would have done so, earlier and quoted some things on this thread. But.....nobody seemed to care about what this thread is actually about, so I didn't and shan't.
BBC documentary. Michael Wood explores the life, works and influence of one of the world's greatest storytellers who died 2,000 years ago. When an Elizabethan literary critic said that the witty soul of Ovid lived on in 'honey tongued Shakespeare', they were just stating the obvious. Ovid, everyone knew, was simply the most clever, sexy and funny poet in the western tradition. His Metamorphoses, it has often been said, is the most influential secular book in European literature.
Using Ovid's own words, brought to life by one of Britain's leading actors, Simon Russell Beale, the film tells the story of the poet's fame, and his fateful falling out with the most powerful man in the world, the Roman emperor Augustus.
Following in Ovid's footsteps, Michael Wood travels from the poet's birthplace in the beautiful town of Sulmona, to the bright lights of the capital, Rome. Here we visit the Houses of Augustus and Livia, recently opened after 25 years of excavation and conservation. Inside the emperor's private rooms glow with the colour of their newly restored frescoes. Wood then follows Ovid into exile in Constanta in today's Romania, and on to the Danube delta, where dramatic footage shows the Danube and the Black Sea frozen over in winter just as Ovid described in his letters.
Throughout the film Ovid's own words reveal an engaging personality: a voice of startling modernity. 'He is funny, irreverent, focused on pleasure and obsessed with sex' says Prof Roy Gibson. But, says Greg Doran, he is also a poet of cruelty and violence, which especially fascinated Shakespeare. Ovid raises very modern questions about the fluidity of identity and gender, and the mutability of nature. He also explores the relationship between writers and power and the experience of exile, themes especially relevant in our time when, as Lisa Dwan observes, exile has become part of the human condition. But above all, says Michael Wood, Ovid is the Poet of Love, and 2,000 years after his death he is back in focus as one of the world's greatest poets: ironical, profound, and relevant.Ovid - The Poet and the Emperor (BBC) | 59:00
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