Art of Love
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Ovid (43 BC-17/18 AD) was a Roman poet. Born in Sulmo the year after Julius Caesars assassination Ovid would join the ranks of Virgil and Horace to become one of the foremost poets of Augustus reign as first Roman emperor. After rejecting a life in law and politics he embarked on a career as a poet publishing his first work the Heroides in 19 BC. This was quickly followed by his Amores (16 BC) a collection of erotic elegies written to his lover Corinna. By 8 AD Ovid finished his Metamorphoses an epic narrative poem tracing the history of Rome and the world from the creation of the cosmos to the death and apotheosis of Julius Caesar. Ambitious and eminently inspired Metamorphoses remains a timeless work of Roman literature and an essential resource for the study of classical languages and mythology. Exiled that same year by Augustus himself Ovid spent the rest of his life in Tomis on the Black Sea where he continued to write poems of loss repentance and longing.