it was said about?
The person that answers truly and complete will then get Best Answer. Not the answerer who has most votes, right or wrong.
hint: a poem without begining or end is not an epic.
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10-16-2009, 12:17 AM #1
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"I prate of ancient Poets' monstrous lies." Who said it and who would you think
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10-16-2009, 12:18 AM #2joe the man
Guestit is attributed to ovidius in metamorphoses, where he says, this is all nonsense and people before (all them classical poet/bards) me wrote a lot about it, but i'll tell it in a way you'll love and you'll lap up all my tales.
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I prate of ancient poets monstrous lies
Ne'er seen or now or then by human eyes - Ovid
I am thinking it could have been said of Virgil. Ovid thought that in the Metamorphoses he was correcting errors made by Virgil. Ovid was only 27 years younger than Virgil, so was it that Virgil appeared ancient in the eyes of this younger man, Ovid, or was it a bit of a slur? Virgil may have been Rome's greatest poet and wrote for Romans, but Ovid was more popular. His main goal was to entertain while keeping the truth in his writings, which was a grand accomplishment and his works were used in schooling students, then and now.
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do you already know the answer and are quizzing us because it sounds like you are
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