![]() ![]() ![]() 25 bce), for example, re-counts the poet’s seemingly autobiographical misadventures in love. Most of Ovid’s early work explores romantic and erotic themes. With the help of an influential patron, Marcus Valerius Messalla Corvinus, Ovid quickly gained prominence as a writer, becoming the leading poet in Rome by 8 CE. Although his family wished him to pursue a political career, Ovid soon abandoned public life to become a poet. Like most young men of his class, Ovid was educated in Rome, where he studied rhetoric under Arellius Fuscus and Porcius Latro after completing his education, he toured the Greek lands. Ovid tutors young men and women on the arts of finding, courting, and keeping a lover.Įvents in History at the Time of the Poemīorn at Sulmo in the Abruzzi (central Italy) in 43 bce, Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso) was the son of a wealthy family. A didactic poem written in Latin in three books on the art of courtship and erotic love, set in Rome during the late first century bce published around the first year bce. ![]()
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