![]() Although the Romans loved the poems, Emperor Augustus did not. In the controversial but highly popular book he shared with his contemporary Romans advice on how to flirt with the opposite sex in order to “get laid” in the booming metropolitan city of Rome. Ovid is also known for his Ars Amatoria (The Art of Love), which probably first came into circulation when Ovid was around 43 years old, in the year 0. Some characters were transformed into trees ( Daphne and Apollo), others into animals ( Artemis and Actaeon), and some to plants/flowers ( Narcissus and Echo), often as punishment for defying or offending the gods. The Metamorphoses is divided into fifteen books, where Ovid tells stories from the already well-known Greek (to some extent Roman) mythology where the main themes being man’s corruption, the different ages of man, rapes, sex and eroticism between gods and humans, with transformations as the central motif. ![]() Ovid is most popular for his poetry, most notably Metamorphoses, a collection of about 250 different Greco-Roman myths and stories written in hexameter. Born in 43 BCE in the city Sulmo just outside Rome, during which Rome was still a Republic governed by the Senate. ![]() Publius Ovidius Naso, also known as Ovid (43 BCE – 17 ACE) was a Roman poet. ![]()
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