Why Did the Poet Ovid (43 B

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Multiple Choice

Why did the poet Ovid (43 B.C.E.-17 C.E.) fall out of favor with Augustus in 8 B.C.E.?

• A) He published the irreverent and bawdy Art of Love.
• B) He refused to write a poem praising the first ten years of Augustus's reign.
• C) He became entangled in a scandal involving Augustus's granddaughter.
• D) In his work Metamorphoses, Ovid criticized Augustus's transformation of government.

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