5/21/2023 0 Comments Amores ovid![]() It would have meant admission to the Senate and would have made Ovid the first senator from Sulmo. This public office was the first office in the cursus honorum, or “course of offices,” leading ultimately to the consulship. ![]() Then at twenty-five he prepared to stand for the quaestorship. He continued his education in Athens, toured Asia Minor, spent a year in Sicily. To a large degree, then, he missed the century of civil wars that played such an important role in the experience of our other poets, and he reached his maturity in the new, peaceful, and urbane Rome of Augustus. At about the time of Actium, Ovid, like others from his class, was sent to Rome for an education in rhetoric and law. This was the year after Julius Caesar was assassinated almost a year before Cicero was murdered and twelve years before the battle of Actium brought an end to the civil war between Antony and Octavian. in Sulmo, a town in the Apennines, about eighty miles from Rome. Ovid was born into a well-to-do equestrian family on March 20, 43 B.C.E. Notes on Ovid and the Amores by William W. ![]() You’re strict, but your severity is pointless (DAS) What good does it do for girls to be exempt? (DAS) Translated by John Svarlien and Diane Arnson Svarlien 1.1 ![]()
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