Assignment for Monday, 02-09-15

Dear Roman Readers,

For Monday, February 9, please do the following:

(1) Download, print, and read the factsheet on the poet Ovid.

(2) Download, print, and read the selections from the Art of Love (book 1), the poem that got Ovid in trouble with Augustus.

(3) Download, print, and read the selections from Sorrows, one of Ovid's two collections of poetry written in his permanent exile from Rome.

Ovid is an Augustan poet to the extreme, writing in an age when the pax Augusta had already taken hold. We'll consider how his poetry represents ideals of that peace, and how he situates himself within his own city imaginary.

DC