Ovid

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Ovid

• By Ross M.

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Ovids Personal Life

• Raised in Rome as a child
• Exiled 8 AD for an unknown reason
• Lived in Rome 51 years before being exiled
• Exiled to Tomi
• No family, was very lonely and had no friends

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Ovids Career

• Studied law but became poet instead from an
  inspiration
• He couldve worked here
• A thought was it was a habit but became more
• Was most famous

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Ovids Career (Cont.)

• Roman poet of his time
• Wrote Metamorphoses and Amores. These were his
  two most famous poems
• This is thought to be what the girl looked like
  in the Amores

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Ovids Popularity

• Famous for exile from Rome to Tomi
• Didnt like Augustus because he exiled Ovid
• His poems made his life great

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Ovids Popularity (Cont.)

• Wasnt really famous until after he died and his
  books were recognized.
• He was so famous a poet in 1596 translated the
  poem

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Ovids Death

• He was exiled by Augustus to Tomi a city near
  Black Sea
• Didnt have friends there either
• Died 9 years later
• Wrote some good work after going there best work
  happened when exiled
• It is unknown how he died but some say it was
  loneliness.

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Ovids Writing

• Wrote Metamorphoses which is about how he changed
• Wrote Amores (Loves) it was about how he was
  lovestrck
• He kept taking them back because he didnt like
  them
• Wrote Elegies which were books within the Amores

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Ovids Writing (Cont.)

• He kept taking them back because he didnt like
  them
• Wrote Elegies which were books within the Amores

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Wisest

• Should be the wisest because lived longer
• More experience
• He knew the feeling of loneliness and the feeling
  of friendship