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Sign in to vote ». The Imperial scholar Quintilian considered him the last of the Latin love elegists. He enjoyed enormous popularity, but, in one of the mysteries of literary history, he was sent by Augustus into exile in a remote province on the Black Sea, where he remained until his death. Ovid himself attributes his exile to carmen et error, "a poem and a mistake", but his discretion in discussing the causes has resulted in much speculation among scholars.
The first major Roman poet to begin his career during the reign of Augustus, Ovid is today best known for the Metamorphoses, a book continuous mythological narrative written in the meter of epic, and for collections of love poetry in elegiac couplets, especially the Amores "Love Affairs" and Ars Amatoria "The Art of Love". His poetry was much imitated during Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages, and greatly influenced Western art and literature.
The Metamorphoses remains one of the most important sources of classical mythology. Bio from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Not one for frolic, Augustus had spearheaded and implemented a series of legislative campaigns that raised the moral bar for the goodly citizens of Rome. Adultery, while always illegal in Rome, was made especially so under the watchful eye of the emperor and legal ramifications were more actively enforced than in previous decades. The mistake that Ovid mentions is more difficult to identify — with scholarly opinions differing on what it was Ovid actually did to offend Augustus.
Tomis, at the very edges of the Roman Empire, was regarded as a barbaric, frightening and uncivilised place. For the optimal punishment of Ovid, Augustus chose his location well, and he never reneged on his decision. This may not initially appear to have any bearing on its content or intent, yet Richlin suggests a profound relevance:.
Rape is undoubtedly the most controversial and confronting theme of the Metamorphoses. It is the ultimate manifestation of male power in the poem and the hundreds of transformations that occur are often the means of escaping it. An early tale of attempted rape is narrated in Book I, involving the nymph, Daphne and the god, Apollo.
Intent on raping Daphne, Apollo chases her through the forest until, utterly exhausted, she calls out to her father, the river god Peneus to rescue her:.
Destroy the shape, which pleases too well, with transformation! The tale of Daphne and Apollo, like so many stories in the Metamorphoses, is classified as an aetiological myth; that is, a narrative that explains an origin. But, as the excerpt above testifies, it is so much more than that. During the last few years, the Metamorphoses has been challenged as a legitimate text for tertiary Humanities students.
Defying the hundreds of years of pedagogical tradition that has seen the poem set for both Latin students and, more recently, literary students who study it in translation, the Metamorphoses has not only been interrogated by scholars such as Richlin, but has also been the subject of increased student complaints and calls for trigger-warnings. In response to the growing number of objections to the work, academic and university executives have been called on to take a position — not only in relation to the Metamorphoses, but in response to other materials that are perceived to render the tertiary experience unsafe.
It seems he never finished this work, although it is valuable for the many fascinating antiquarian details it contains. Ovid is most famous for the Metamorphoses, a single poem of fifteen books, which was probably completed around a. By writing the Metamorphoses in dactylic hexameter, the meter of epic, Ovid intentionally invited comparisons with the greatest Roman poet of his age, Virgil, who had written the epic the Aeneid.
In form, rhythm, and size, the Metamorphoses falls squarely in the category of epic. In content, however, the Metamorphoses has little in common with such epics as the Aeneid, which are characterized by a single story line and one main protagonist. In fact, Ovid explicitly pokes fun of the epic genre.
The Metamorphoses more closely resembles the work of Hesiod and the Alexandrian poets, who favored a collection of independent stories connected by a theme. Shortly after the publication of these two poems, Ovid found himself in great peril. Poems on the art of seduction would have hardly pleased Augustus, who sought to institute moral reform. Moreover, Augustus must have been especially incensed when he exiled his own daughter, Julia, for adultery.
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