Sabinus (Ovid)

Sabinus ( † before 16 AD) was the name of a Roman poet in the Augustan period. He created epic and elegiac seals in the way of his friend Ovid, who repeatedly mentions him.

The works of Sabinus have not survived. From Amores 2,18,27 ff we know of reply letters to Ovid's Heroides ( Odysseus to Penelope, Hippolytus to Phaedra, Aeneas Dido, Demophon Phyllis, Hypsipyle to Jason, Phaon to Sappho ). Certainly, these were a literary gimmick; the psychological content of the Heroides establishes precisely that the senders can not expect a response. Furthermore Sabinus wrote a didactic poem on the model of Ovid's Fasti.

Sabinus apparently died early; a work Troizen (?) remained unfinished ( Ovid, Epistulae ex Ponto 4,16,15 f).

  • Author
  • Poetry
  • Antiquity ( literature)
  • Literature ( Latin)
  • Born in the 1st century BC
  • Died in the 1st century
  • Man
Latin literature Elegy Hippolytus (son of Theseus) Dido (Queen of Carthage) Fasti (poem) Integrated Authority File
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