What are the views and attitudes towards love as presented by Ovid compared to other first century Roman poets? Love has in modern times, until relatively recently been inextricably linked with marriage and young people have been encouraged not to indulge in sex before marriage. However during first century Rome this was not necessarily the case. Attitudes to love, sex and marriage varied according to age, wealth, status in society and respectability. In one of …showed first 75 words of 11203 total…

…showed last 75 words of 11203 total…a little wine (gone to my head)". He then goes on to try to bribe and threaten the porter to no avail and in the end leaves a garland on the door and bids farewell to the doorway. Although this is a very comical example it may have been perfectly normal for a nocturnal witness in contemporary Rome to describe the occasional exclusus amator. Ovid in this poem explores the plaint of the 'excluded love'