Exercitatio VI Practice

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Ovid

Ovid

Born in 43 B.C. in Sulmo into a knight (equestrian) family

Ovid's Political Career

Father sent him to Rome and Athens to study rhetoric

Ovid's Poetic Career

Brother died when Ovid was 16, decided to pursue poetry

When Was Ovid's First Work

25 B.C.E.

Ovid's Literary Circle

Corvinus and Maecenas, Maecenas was close to Augustus

Ovid's Friends

Propertius (love elegist), Horace, Vergil, and Tibullus (love elegist)

Ovid's Exile

8 A.C.E., exiled to Tomis by Augustus due to "carmen et error" (poem and mistake)

Vergil

Born in Mantua (northern Italy), lived through Rome's brutal era of civil wars, died in 19 B.C.E., all work destroyed

Vergil's Circle

Invited by Maecenas, in circle with Horace

Vergil's Epic

The Aeneid (influenced by Iliad and Odyssey)

Maecenas

Invited Vergil and Ovid to literary circle, Augustus' right-hand man