Metamorphoses By Publius Ovidius Naso

Poems can be viewed as windows to our imagination, phrases that helps us scape from reality and enter a world that can be commanded by any emotion. Poems can also be used to narrate stories, teach morals, entertained a multitude or simply just to communicate with others. Publius Ovidius Naso was one of those individuals that could do this and much more with the power of his poems. The following paragraphs will be use to introduced an iconic poet of Rome that influenced many during and after his time. Ovid is the author of many literature pieces during the middle age and is best known for his work of Metamorphoses.
Publius Ovidius Naso was born in in Sulmo on March 20, 43 BC. He came from an aristocratic family, studied law in Rhetoric Rome
under Arellius Fuscus and Porcius Latro. After the death of his brother he decided to leave law and travel to Asia Minor, Athens and Sicily. During this time he was still associated with law as being a member of Centumviral court and other groups. By 29-25 BC he decided to leave law completely and persuaded poetry instead. Ovid was the first Roman poet to start a career during the control of Augustus regiment. His early works are heavily based on romance and erotic theme literature. After his Metamorphoses books set, he moved into a more settle literature. In the course of his work of Fasti, he got exile out of Rome to Tomis, where he died around 17 to 18 AD. Reason for his exile is not clear but is often associated with a writing of the Fasti. Ovidious is also known as one of the 3 most influential poet in Latin literature along with Virgil and Horace. He also influenced many great mind such as William Shakespeare.
Ovid is known for his vastly ingenious ways of writing and bringing together traditional and elaborated genre. Moreover, during his first twenty-five years he was best-known for his erotic poetry such as Heroides (The heroines). A collection of 21 poems based on the idea of mythological heroines sending letters to their lovers. The exclusivity of this collection is that many intellectuals admired these set of poems for their fascinating psychological characteristics assign to the heroines. Continuing with Amores (The lovers), is the collection of 3 books based on love. This poetry was created on the relationship with a mistress named Carinna. These narrative poems describes the relationship that he had with this mistress over a period of time. He narrates different points of the relationship and finalizes the collection by making the decision of ending the affiliation between them. Ongoing with Medicamina factel femincea (Women facial Cosmetic), consist of Ovid telling women: that first they should learn proper manner and appropriate behavior before learning to wear cosmetics. Only few lines out this work has survive over the years. Ars Amaturia (The art of love). In this trilogy, the books are based on seduction and love. The first 2 books are intended for men and consist of teaching them how to properly seduce and keep a women. The last book is intended for the female. In this last book Ovid teaches her proper seduction techniques. All 3 books tells the reader to implore him as his teacher. Finally Remedia Amoris (The cure of love) is address to men to teach them to how to properly forget about a previous lovers. With this book he ends his erotic poetry.
After this phase he worked on his most ambitious and popular work.
A work that consisted of 15 books linked with geographical, themes and contrast. This fascinating literature composition consist of the transformation of the Greek and Roman mythology. Metamorphoses (Transformation), is composed of 250 different mythological stories. The 1st book is set up to explain the beginning of everything. The 2nd book, is a description of the love of Jupiter with Callisto and Eropa. 3rd book, consist of the myth of Thebes. The 4th book, is a story line of three pair of mythological lovers. 5th book, is the song of the musses, that describes of the rape of Proserpina. 6th book, is the description of the Gods versus mortals. 7th book, consist of the stories of Madea, Cephalus and Procis. 8th book, is a portrayal of the fight of Deadalus and Calydonian boar hunt. 9th book, consist of Heracles and Incestuous Byblis. The 10th book, are stories of domed love. 11th book, is acomparison of marriage between Peleous and Thetis with the love of Ceyx and Alcyone. In the12th book, he moves into history and analyses the exploits of Achilles. In the 13th book, it consist on the contest over Achilles arm and Polyphemos. 14th book, is the Journey of Aeneas. And lastly the 15th book, it opens with a philosophical lecture by Phytagora and end up with veneration of
Cesar.
The next 4 works are Fasti (The festival), an incomplete work due to his exile. IBIS (The Ibis) 644 lines of a poem that is intended to attack his enemies with stories of mythology. TRISTIA (Sorrow) five books describing his last days in Rome, the betrayal, wife and friend, and the voyage to Tomis. And lastly Epistulae ex Ponto (Letters from the Black Sea) four books describing to his friend and wife about his life in Tomis. This was his last completed work, but he continually revised the Fasti till his death.
Finally, Ovid became one of the best known and most loved Roman poets during the Middle Ages and influenced the Renaissance. He became very important in the arts and literature thought the years and influence many parts of the word. He is also known for his explicit combination of writing of traditional and elaborated themes in most of his work. During the Middle Ages his style was used to write about sex and violence without intervention of religion, but eventually it was order to burned all his love poetry by 1599. Furthermore, Ovid poetry provided inspiration for the Renaissance idea of humanon, painters and writers in Portugal, Spain and Brazil. Western literature was also influenced by his style and shaped many parts of literature all over the world. This is how Publius Ovidius Naso poetry books managed to survive after the Roman Empire collapsed.