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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]
Ovid wrote more about his own life than most other Roman poets. Information about his biography is drawn primarily from his poetry, especially Tristia 4.10, [6] which gives a lengthy autobiographical account of his life.
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Ovid (43 BCE – 17 CE, Roman Republic/Roman Empire) – The Art of Love Seneca the Younger (c. 4 BCE – 65 CE, Hispania / Rome ) – Apocolocyntosis Persius (34–62 CE, Roman Empire)
The Roman poet Ovid simplified the concept by reducing the number of Ages to four: Gold, Bronze, Silver, and Iron. Ovid's poetry was likely a prime source for the transmission of the myth of the Golden Age during the period when Western Europe had lost direct contact with Greek literature. The Golden Age (c. 1530) by Lucas Cranach the Elder
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.