A SHIP CALLED „FEMINAE“ IN THE MEDITERRANEAN PORT OVIDIUS... SOME OVIDIAN LEGAL AND MORAL IDEAS. FLORILEGIUM
A SHIP CALLED „FEMINAE“ IN THE MEDITERRANEAN PORT OVIDIUS... SOME OVIDIAN LEGAL AND MORAL IDEAS. FLORILEGIUM

Summary/Abstract: Publius Ovidius Naso, the poet who was born in Sulmona (Italy) on March 20, 43, ante Christum and died in Tomis (Constanta, on the Romanian coast of the Black Sea) on January 1 of 17 post Christum, educated at university level in controversiae, a prominent member of Valerius Messala's literary circle, a decemvir judge for a while, secret lover of Corinna (Iulia, daughter of Emperor Octavianus Augustus), author of the immortal Metamorphoses (considered by the world's intellectuals, as voiced by Ezra Pound, to be the most beautiful body of work ever composed), the unfortunate passenger of his self-imposed voyage into exile on the paradoxically cynical ship called Minerva, heading for the port of Tomis to serve out the unjust sentence of Augustus. Indeed, he was a judge, in a special position, holder of the third and most important regal attribute, the right to judge one's peers, with total power of life and death over them. Ovid, more than all the intellectuals of his era, exemplarily illustrates the extent of literary influences in the Roman law of the Classical Age. Moreover, his Metamorphoses also constituted for Christian theology from the Middle Ages an inexhaustible source of ideas, which made him, through a veritable apocatastasis, become a "Christian" poet (avant la lettre). This text attempts to bring together, as in a bouquet of flowers, as in a florilegium, a few legal and moral ideas that were featured, over time, in immortal legal creations that dealt with the legal and social status of women.

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