OVIDIU’S MATURITY POETRY – A FUNDAMENTALLY ONTOLOGICAL EXPERIENCE
OVIDIU’S MATURITY POETRY – A FUNDAMENTALLY ONTOLOGICAL EXPERIENCE

Summary/Abstract: Ovidius had become the spoiled poet in the high networks of Rome, and Augustus, in his effort to revive the virtues and the life ideals of the past, wanted a literature which was able to influence the masses, to eulogize the countryside life and to encourage the restoration of the old cults and religious beliefs. After a long period in which he wrote love poems, he sensed that Ŗnecessitasŗ to write works which would please emperor Augustus. He therefore composes Metamorphoses and Fasti.

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