Educated in Rome at schools of rhetoric, Ovid chose to become a poet rather than have an official career. His masterpiece, Metamorphoses (1-8 AD), was to have an enormous influence on European literature. His other major works include Amores (Love) (c. 20 BC), Ars amatoria (c. 1 BC), Remedia Amoris, Fasti, and the two works he completed in exile, Tristia and Epistulae ex Ponto. In 8 AD, Ovid was banished from Rome to Tomis, a remote part of the empire, by the Emperor Augustus. This was evidently caused by some scandal involving the imperial family and some passages in the Ars amatoria that offended Augustus. |
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