Ovid: The Love Poems Ovid

Ovid and Horace, Roman poets in the age of Augustus, collectively captured a very broad range of sentiments and atmosphere in the empire at this time. Horace wrote odes, satires, and epistles that glorify Augustus himself and his reforms and...

Jordan Reid Berkow

Final Paper

Rome of Augustus

April 17, 2003

"Make Panic Look Fetching": The Eroticization of Rape by Ovid

In both the Ars Armatoria and Metamorphoses, Ovid presents highly detailed, compelling scenes of rape, crafting these moments...