"Lyrics" - a collection of elegiac initiations of the ancient Roman poet Publius Ovid Nazon (lat. Publius Ovidius Naso, 43 g. before n. e. 18 g. n. e. ). *** The author praises the virtues of a beautiful lover, whose identity is hidden under the name of the Greek Corinna . Other outstanding works of the poet are “Heroes of Ovid”, “Metamorphosis”, “Sorrows of Ovid”, “Science of love”, “Fasts”, “Medicine from love”, “Ibis” and “Ponty letters” . Publius Ovid Nazon, as one of the most educated people of his time, gained fame as a devoted friend of Horace, and also had a significant influence on later European literature.