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Ovid himself wrote many references to his offense, giving obscure or contradictory clues. [ 32 ] In 1923, scholar J. J. Hartman proposed a theory that is little considered among scholars of Latin civilization today: that Ovid was never exiled from Rome and that all of his exile works are the result of his fertile imagination.
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]
In book 10 of Ovid's Metamorphoses, Pygmalion was a Cypriot sculptor who carved a woman out of ivory alabaster.Post-classical sources name her Galatea.. According to Ovid, when Pygmalion saw the Propoetides of Cyprus practicing prostitution, he began "detesting the faults beyond measure which nature has given to women". [1]
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The Latin elegy reached its highest development in the works of Tibullus, Propertius, and Ovid. Most of this poetry is concerned with love. Ovid wrote the Fasti, which describes Roman festivals and their legendary origins. Ovid's greatest work, the Metamorphoses weaves various myths into a fast-paced, fascinating story. Ovid was a witty writer ...
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Epistulae ex Ponto (Letters from the Black Sea) is a work of Ovid, in four books. [1] It is a collection of letters describing Ovid's exile in Tomis (modern-day Constanța) written in elegiac couplets and addressed to his wife and friends.
For example, Hyginus includes the names of three Titans, Coeus, Iapetus, and Astraeus, along with Typhon and the Aloadae, in his list of Giants, [23] and Ovid seems to conflate the Gigantomachy with the later siege of Olympus by the Aloadae. [24] Ovid also seems to confuse the Hundred-Handers with the Giants, whom he gives a "hundred arms". [25]