![]() His greatest piece of work, however, is the Metamorphoses, an epic of an unusual sort. He is known to have written at least one play in the early part of his literary career. He wrote only in elegaic couplet and hexameter, although he tended to stick to the former for the majority of his works. However, he decided to leave the government and pursue a career and life as a poet. ![]() He was fast on track to becoming the first Roman senator from Sulmo. Later on he became one of the decemuiri stlitibus iudicandis, a kind of judge. He became either one of the tresuiri monetales (administrators of the mint) or of the tresuiri capitales (administrators of prisons and executions), it is unsure which. He went to Rome and embarked on career in government. When his elder brother died, his family transferred all of their hopes onto Ovid. However, the Paeligini had long been associated with Rome, and his family was well known locally. Unlike other Golden Age poets that survived the wars that marked the violent downfall of the Roman Republic, Ovid was the first to come come of age during the beginning of the Roman Empire(the Augustan Age).Ovid was not considered a Roman, but Paeligian since his family was from Sulmo. ![]() He is considered by some to be the last of the Golden Age poets(Horace, Vergil), or by others the first of the Silver Age poets(Statius, Lucan). ![]() Ovid was born on March 20, 43 B.C., in Sulmo(known today as Sulmona), Italy. ![]()
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