ultima caelestum terras Astraea reliquit.
--Ovid, Metamorphoses, I.149-150
And in the end, when Piety lay crushed in defeat,
the maiden Astraea, the last of the divinities,
left the realm of humanity still dripping with blood.
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Name: Publius Ovidius Naso
Date: 43 BCE – 18 CE
Works: Ars Amatoria
Metamorphoses*
Tristia, etc.
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Ovid was one of the most famous love poets of Rome’s Golden Age. His
most famous work, the Metamorphoses, provides a history of the world through
a series of interwoven myths. Most of his poetry is erotic in nature; for
this reason, he fell into trouble during the conservative social reforms
under the reign of the emperor Augustus. In 8 CE he was banished to Bithynia,
where he spent the remainder of his life pining for his native homeland.
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