Ovid's Erotic Poems SOCIAL SCIENCE / Criminology He also examines the dismal

He also examines the dismal conditions of migrants in transit and the institutional framework in which they move or are physically confined

whereas texts about women accused of giving birth to monstrous children define the mother's contribution to conception in terms of corrupted

Yet in Lyric Tactics

of criminal poisoning charges

Ovid's Erotic Poems SOCIAL SCIENCE / Criminology He also examines the dismalThe most sophisticated and daring poetic ironist of the early Roman Empire, Publius Ovidius Naso, is perhaps best known for his oft imitated Metamorphoses. But the Roman poet also wrote lively and lewd verse on the subjects of love, sex, marriage, and adulterya playful parody of the earnest erotic poetry traditions established by his literary ancestors. The Amores, Ovid's first completed book of poetry, explores the conventional mode of erotic elegy