person
Corinna
The poet's mistress and the central beloved of the Amores; a literary persona whose historicity Ovid leaves teasingly open.
Reading notes
- The Loves §1.5 Corinna
The poet's mistress, named here for the first time; the beloved around whom the Amores revolve.
- The Loves §3.7 Chlide
Chlide, Pitho, and Libas are named courtesans the speaker boasts of having satisfied — invented Greek names of the demi-monde.
- The Art of Love §3.26 Corinna
Ovid's own elegiac mistress, whose true identity many ask after.
- Sorrows §4.10 Corinna
The pseudonymous mistress 'sung through the whole City' in Ovid's Amores.