CLAS 208 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Ultimate Power, Cupid, Lucretius
17 Mar 2016
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>not a nice romanic story which is problemaic for western poetry. >he had ulimate power and that is what ovid blames him for in exile poetry. >lot epic was not for ovid because cupid ordered him to write about love. His unlucky error misled him to possibly do something he shouldn"t have. > the verse that honours you in my books could not be judged more justly . Augustus acted out personally not through senate or court. Ovid"s own metamorphoses (irony) from joy to sorrow. Augustus as jupiter: you also, since you"re called a father and ruler of the land, should follow the ways of the god with the same itle (=show mercy) Augustus is always praised (even if it"s eroic poetry) >if love can sum up ovid"s literary career he"s saying i"m done with love . History of the universe (from creaion to caesar)
