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Publius Ovidius Naso was born on the 20th of March in 43 BC within the Paelignian town of Sulmo. This Apennine valley settlement lies east of Rome and served as his birthplace before he moved to the capital for education.
Emperor Augustus banished Publius Ovidius Naso to Tomis on the Black Sea without Senate approval or judicial proceedings in AD 8. Ovid himself attributed his banishment to a carmen et error meaning poem and mistake but refused to disclose specific details regarding subversive writing concerning adultery under Julian marriage laws of 18 BC.
The Metamorphoses stands as Ovid's most ambitious work consisting of fifteen books written in dactylic hexameter containing nearly twelve thousand verses with almost two hundred fifty different myths from Greek and Roman tradition. Characters undergo transformations into trees rocks animals flowers constellations and other forms throughout the narrative spanning world formation ages of man flood stories Daphne near rape by Apollo Io's abduction by Jupiter and many others.
The Amores collection contains three books describing many aspects of love through relationship with mistress named Corinna including poems covering Ovid's intention to write epic poetry thwarted when Cupid stole metrical foot changing work into love elegy. Poems eight and nine deal with Corinna selling her love for gifts while 11 and 12 describe failed meeting arrangements and poem 14 discusses Corinna's disastrous hair dyeing experiment.
Ovid wrote two poetry collections called Tristia and Epistulae ex Ponto expressing sadness and desolation while far from Rome after being banished around AD 8. He learned Sarmatian and Getic languages during his nine or ten years in Tomis and his third wife helped him during exile though she remained connected to the influential gens Fabia family.
In 1992 classical scholar Amy Richlin published influential article critiquing prevalence rape within Ovid's Metamorphoses renewed focus sexual assault Ovid's poetry since #MeToo Movement 2017. Several feminist reinterpretations Ovid's Metamorphoses directly indirectly criticize treatment women texts including Ali Smith novel Girl Meets Boy 2007 reimagines lesbian relationship Iphis Ianthe Book nine Metamorphoses.