6/28/2023 0 Comments Ovid poem the art of love![]() ![]() In fact, it had been published about eight years before he was banished, so that can’t have been the proximate cause. The carmen he’s referring to is the 'Ars Amatoria' ('The Art of Love'), said to induce Roman matrons towards adultery, which of course was rubbish. an error, it’s a mistake, an indiscretion. A carmen is a song, a poem, and an error is. The only evidence we have is what Ovid himself tells us, and he tells us there were two reasons. The climate was terrible, there was no culture there, and Ovid was exiled and his books were banned. No one went to Tomis, it was right on the edge of the Empire. ![]() ![]() Augustus made the announcement himself and exiled Ovid to a place called Tomis – in modern-day Romania on the Black Sea – which was frankly a dump. Very shortly after the 'Metamorphoses' was first published, or perhaps even the first draft was published, we’re not quite sure, Ovid was suddenly exiled from Rome. Although he took a few jobs in the judiciary, he decided not to go into public life and instead became a poet, and a very successful poet at that. He toured Greece in a mini Grand Tour, which was another thing that wealthy Roman men would have done. He came from a quite wealthy family and as a young man moved to Rome for his education, as was the standard thing at the time. Bernadine Corrigan: Ovid was a poet born in 43BC, the year after the assassination of Julius Caesar. ![]()
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