![]() ![]() (If you want to know more about him, check out our Shmoop guide to the Aeneid.) "Arrrgh. This poet's name was Virgil, and the heap he sat on was called epic poetry. Even if he was top-of-the-heap as far as love poets were concerned, right beside him there was an even taller heap, with a different poet on top. What do you do with a handful of putty, anyway? That said, they seem to have left him unsatisfied. There's no question that the books Ovid wrote during this period are pretty amazing (we especially recommend the Heroides, a series of poems presented as letters from jilted mythological ladies to their deadbeat boyfriends and husbands). Ovid's path to stardom paralleled that of many popular musicians, writers, and filmmakers today: He picked a genre-in his case, love poetry-and stuck to it, working at it and working at it until it was like putty in his hands. ![]() By the time Ovid sat down to write The Metamorphoses around the year 2 A.D., he had already established himself as one of Rome's most popular poets. ![]()
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