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The Politics Of Writing In The Works Of Cicero And Ovid, Caroline Ann Kyzek
The Politics Of Writing In The Works Of Cicero And Ovid, Caroline Ann Kyzek
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The period between the Late Republic and Early Empire of Ancient Rome was a period of instability which involved civil wars and politicians vying for power. As a result, the literature of this period was changing as well. The two works I have chosen to examine are Cicero’s Second Philippic and Book I of Ovid’s Ars Amatoria or The Art of Love. The reason I have chosen these two is that they are on opposite spectrums in the period of transition from the Roman Republic to the Roman Empire. As one form of government was replacing the other, writing was …