CLASSIC 20 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Elegy, Alcohol And Sex, Simile
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Old equestrian family (wealthy but not like rulers), older brother 1 year apart. One birthday but two cakes shared with brother. Death of his brother died in his 20s; allowed ovid to be a poet. Ovid held a minor political office in rome but abandoned a public career in law. He is a new generation of love poets near the end of the republic (the time of. Ovid only saw virgil once before virgil died in 19. Ovid was very scared to be a love poet. Aonia mountain range in boeotia in greece and mythological home of the nine muses. The different type of poetry they wrote. Alternating verses of 6 and 5 measures (feet) Epic poetry composed in 6 feet what virgil wrote in. Elegiac poetry composed in alternating verses 6 and 5 feet. 7th century bce greek tradition associated with serious topics, funeral songs, songs for the dead, songs of war.
