CLA204H1 Lecture : LEC09.docx
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1st century bc rome time of civil strife. Octavian (son of caesar) fought the murderers of caesar. This is the endpoint of hellenistic age, beginning of roman age. Ovid came from the agustus age when octavian was ruler of rome. Ovid was born in the year 14 bc. Types of elegy: lamentation and love poetry. He is witty and has lack of seriousness (he was criticized for this) During this exile, he wrote poems of his exile. Meatmorphoses doesn"t really tell stories like the iliad but it offers the history of the world about change and transformation (metamorphoses) eg. humans turning into trees. The first five books focuses on the gods, the second five focuses on the heros, and then the last ones focus on rulers the world was destroyed twice first by water, second by fire. The first story in the metamorphoses human to animal. Laokaon tries to kill zeus while zeus is his guest.
