![]() ![]() He wrote many poems, a manual on the subject of seduction, and the Metamorphoses-the most significant work of mythology to date-by 8 C.E. During his literary career, Ovid wrote mostly erotic poetry in elegiac meter. Ovid resolved to be a poet when he was around 20 years old, a decision which displeased his father. When his older brother died at age 20, Ovid gave up the study of law altogether and took to traveling through Athens and Sicily. Although Ovid excelled at rhetoric, he was drawn towards using his oratory skills to explore emotional rather than political themes. Ovid’s father educated Ovid and his brother in rhetoric in hopes that they would practice law as adults. Ovid was born in a rural valley near Rome, Italy during the reign of Augustus.
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