A CONTESTAÇÃO DE OVÍDIO AOS PRINCÍPIOS MORAIS DE AUGUSTO NAS ELEGIAS DOS AMORES.

The origins of the elegiac poetry probably date back to Ancient Greece, acquiring certain popularity in the IVth century b.C., when it became a literary genre. In Rome, the elegy stand out mainly in the ends of the Republic and the beginning of August princedom (Ist century b.C. - Ist century a.D.). Famous are authors such as Ovid, Tibule and Properce, which spread the elegy in various facets: lovely, sensual, yearning, etc. The enunciation of the beloved in the poems makes the scenes bright and ardent. The search of love, intense, which conducts to the breaking of any rule, is the main Ovid's theme, the eternal lovely poet. Contrary to imperial laws, the poet from Sulmon addresses to soldiers or deceived husbands and beautiful girls to affront the recent convened Augustan morality. It is in this environment that Ovid's works succeed to emphasize himself and conquest originality in the own Ancient Rome itself. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]