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Thanks and I hope you enjoy the episode. Abe and welcome to Emperor's Rome, a Roman history podcast from Latrobe University.

I'm your host Matt Smith and with me today are two guests, Associate Professor

Rianna Evans, Head of the Department of Languages and Linguistics at

Latrobe University, and Dr Peter Davis, Visiting Research Fellow in classics at the University of Adelaide.

This is episode CLI. Ovid's Fasty. The Fasty is a poem about the Roman calendar, written by the poet Ovid during the reign of the Emperor Augustus.

Writing the poem gave Ovid the chance to think about contemporary Rome through the medium of some of the best known Roman stories like the

city's foundation by Romulus and Remus and the creation of the republic by Brutus.

He's Rianna Evans and Peter Davis.

So Ovid was the He's Rianan Evans and Peter Davis.

So Ovid was the most important poet in the second half of the reign of Augustus.

He was born in March 43 BC. He went on to write what we can divide his career into three phases.

There's love poetry to start with so we have the amores which is a traditional kind of love

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