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Kickstarter. It's reached its funding goal, but if you'd still like to contribute and get

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addition coffee mug now's your chance. When in Rome exists due to the generosity of

the supporters so sincerely thank you to everyone who has contributed to the campaign so far.

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Thanks very much and here's the podcast. And welcome to Emperors of Rome, a Roman history podcast from Latrobe University.

I'm your host Matt Smith and with me today is Associate Professor Peter Davis,

visiting research fellow in classics at the University of Adelaide.

This is episode CXII, The Book of Love.

The Roman poet Ovid penned the Book of Love in three volumes as a manual for how to deal with the art of love and seduction during the slightly austere days of the reign of Augustus.

Now be forewarned, the book isn't exactly men are from the temple of Mars and

women are from the temple of Venus so happy lupacalia I guess here's Peter Davis

of it was born in March in He is p.

p.d. He was born in March in 43 b.C. so the year after Julius Caesar was assassinated

so he's born during that period of the Civil Wars he's about 12 when Octavian wins the Battle of Actim and so Augustus comes to power he

died in either 17 or 18 CE. We don't know which year it was. But the pivotal

event in his life occurred in 8 CE, which was the year in which he was exiled or technically relegated to

Tomus on the Black Sea in what is now Romania.

So as I say the pivotal event is that his major work the greatest work which I

certainly accept that it's his greatest work is metamorphosis but before he wrote metamorphosis, of it started out as a love poet and he wrote love

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