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Following the death of his brother at 20 years of age, Ovid renounced law and travelled to Athens, Asia Minor, and Sicily. [9] He held minor public posts, as one of the tresviri capitales , [ 10 ] as a member of the Centumviral court [ 11 ] and as one of the decemviri litibus iudicandis , [ 12 ] but resigned to pursue poetry probably around 29 ...
The carmen to which Ovid referred has been identified as Ars Amatoria (The Art of Love), written some seven years before his exile. [18] However, Ovid expresses surprise that only he has been exiled for such a reason since many others also wrote obscene verse, [19] seemingly with the emperor's approval. [20]
The Metamorphoses is comprehensive in its chronology, recounting the creation of the world to the death of Julius Caesar, which had occurred only a year before Ovid's birth; [12] it has been compared to works of universal history, which became important in the 1st century BCE. [16]
One of the best examples of this theme that Ovid so clearly draws upon is the speech given by a messenger in Oedipus Rex that tells of the death of Jocasta and the blinding of Oedipus. [24] This famous speech follows in the same theme of that given by Hecuba, previous actions and the fates that lead characters to destruction and death.
Achilles was foreseen an early death if he joined the Greeks in the Trojan War so his mother disguised him as a girl to protect him. Ulysses, however, discovered him and convinced him to join the battle. VIII: 309, XI: 265, XII: 73-615, XIII: 30-597, XV: 856 [3] Acis: Son of Faunus and a river nymph. The lover of Galatea (deity). XIII: 750-896 ...
Ovid acknowledges the Empress Livia as a potential ally to return home, describing her like a vestal virgin – pudicarum Vesta matrum [8] 'Vesta of chaste matrons'. [9] However, Augustus ' death and the death of his friend and frequent addressee, Paullus Fabius Maximus , discourage Ovid from hoping for a return. [ 10 ]
Ovid's is the oldest surviving version of the story, published in 8 AD, but he adapted an existing aetiological myth.While in Ovid's telling Pyramus and Thisbe lived in Babylon, and Ctesias had placed the tomb of his imagined king Ninus near that city, the myth probably originated in Cilicia (part of Ninus' Babylonian empire) as Pyramos is the historical Greek name of the local Ceyhan River.
Jean de la Fontaine's poem follows Ovid closely. John Dryden translated Ovid's poem in 1693. Jonathan Swift wrote a poem on the subject of Baucis and Philemon in 1709. Joseph Haydn wrote a marionette opera Philemon und Baucis, oder Jupiters Reise auf die Erde in 1773. Baucis and Philemon are characters in the fifth act of Goethe's Faust II (1832).