Publius Ovidius Naso , known in the English-speaking world as Ovid , was a Roman poet known for his legacy of bringing a diverse array Latin poems into that of Western canon. He lived during the reign of Augustus ( LIE ) , as a contemporaries of the legendary Virgil ( ILI ) and lofty Horace ( ESI ). At an early age, Ovid was tutored under Arellius Fuscus and Marcus Porcius Latro in Rome to study rhetoric and law along with his older brother. However, when his brother died at the age of 20, Ovid abandoned his studies altogether and devoted the rest of his life to poetry. His first success was penned around 16 BCE, known as Amores , a collection of erotic poems that were praised for their descriptiveness and consistently light-hearted themes. Ovid followed this work with more romantic poetry, eventually producing Metamorphoses , - 12,000 lines written in dactylic hexameter chronicling all of human history up until the death of Julius Caesar ( SEE ) . The majority of what is known o...
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