Ovid

The first fact about Ovid is a book, not a bedroom. In 1471 Bologna printed an Opera that already contained Ars amandi, Metamorphoses, Fasti, and the exile letters. That incunable is the first public dated cluster this dossier will own. They do not occupy the date field as fake ISO autographs, and they do not appear as BCE negatives.

Ars as printed didaxis treats consent as a craft. Paul IV’s 1559 Index and the 1599 English Bishops’ Ban are speech-control instruments in his afterlife. Nineteenth-century expurgation hid the ethics problem in classrooms while publishers took rents. Painting markets made Daphne and Philomela display. Early-modern notes printed Julia as if she were a file: this page stores that as opacity, not as a verdict. Fascist 1937 used the exile as romanità. 2000s pickup brands cited Ars. Loeb Tristia made displacement and a reading prince into school English.

The offsets are also documents: Golding 1567, Aldine 1502, Garth 1717, Sandys 1626, Loeb Metamorphoses 1916, Perseus and PHI, Hughes 1997, MINAC at Tomis, Sulmona civic memory, an 1887 statue, Met myth essays. Those are access paths. They do not rebate Tomis or Ars.

What the score must not say: that Julia is proven; that 8 CE is a passport stamp in ISO; that Hughes is Ovid; that an Index line is an Augustan edict; that a Constanța museum undid relegation. Complex contribution is the honest type.

Related people are Augustus, Horace, Virgil, Tibullus, Propertius, Marlowe, Golding, Hughes, Dante as later vernacular user, Shakespeare as Metamorphoses reader — specific roles, not a pad.

1471 is not 1559. 1559 is not 1937. Carmen et error stays vague.

If a contemporary indictment naming the error appears, that row would change. Until then, gossip stays a statement. If a securely dated Augustan edict of relegation appears, the exile row could move its carrier. Keep Ars, Tristia, Index, and Golding on separate dates; mixing them is how a libertine statue gets built and how a ban pamphlet gets built. Shared work remains named. Shared work with named collaborators, later editors, and institutions remains named. Day-precision is not invented where the named records are year-level. 1471-06-01 (cost, driver protection-of-minority-rights): The 1471 printed Ars amatoria publishes a didaxis of seduction as public instruction — ISTC — Ovid Opera, Bologna, Balthasar Azoguidus, 1471 (https://data.cerl.org/istc/io00126000 (opens in a new tab)); Cambridge Companion to Ovid (https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/cambridge-companion-to-ovid/ (opens in a new tab)). 1559-01-01 (cost, driver democratic-resilience): Paul IV’s 1559 Index lists Ovidian erotic works among prohibited books — Index Librorum Prohibitorum — historical printed index (https://archive.org/details/indexlibrorumpro00cath (opens in a new tab)); British Library — Ovid incunabula and later print (https://www.bl.uk/ (opens in a new tab)). Ovidius Naso (1567) — public-domain text (https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/26073 (opens in a new tab)); Poetry Foundation — Ovid (https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/ovid (opens in a new tab)). 1937-01-01 (cost, driver political-polarization): Fascist Italy’s 1937 bimillenary stages Ovid as an imperial Augustan resource — Cambridge Companion to Ovid (https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/cambridge-companion-to-ovid/ (opens in a new tab)); Britannica — Ovid (https://www.britannica.com/biography/Ovid-Roman-poet (opens in a new tab)). 1929-01-01 (cost, driver protection-of-minority-rights): The Loeb prints Mozley’s Art of Love with English facing the Latin didaxis — Loeb Classical Library — Ovid (https://www.loebclassics.com/ (opens in a new tab)); Cambridge Companion to Ovid (https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/cambridge-companion-to-ovid/ (opens in a new tab)). 1471-09-01 (cost, driver humanitarian-access): The 1471 Opera prints Tristia and Epistulae ex Ponto as public exile letters — ISTC — Ovid Opera, Bologna, Balthasar Azoguidus, 1471 (https://data.cerl.org/istc/io00126000 (opens in a new tab)); Britannica — Ovid (https://www.britannica.com/biography/Ovid-Roman-poet (opens in a new tab)). 1717-01-01 (offset, driver social-cohesion): Samuel Garth’s consortium publishes a complete English Metamorphoses — Library of Congress — Ovid print holdings (https://www.loc.gov/ (opens in a new tab)); Poetry Foundation — Ovid (https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/ovid (opens in a new tab)). 1997-01-01 (offset, driver social-cohesion): Ted Hughes publishes Tales from Ovid as a dated modern English recasting — Poetry Foundation — Ovid (https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/ovid (opens in a new tab)); Cambridge Companion to Ovid (https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/cambridge-companion-to-ovid/ (opens in a new tab)). 1925-01-01 (offset, driver social-cohesion): Sulmona’s civic museums and statue culture present Ovid as a municipal ancestor — Britannica — Ovid (https://www.britannica.com/biography/Ovid-Roman-poet (opens in a new tab)); Cambridge Companion to Ovid (https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/cambridge-companion-to-ovid/ (opens in a new tab)). 2000-01-01 (offset, driver social-cohesion): The Met publishes public Heilbrunn essays on mythological subjects fed by Ovid — Met Heilbrunn — mythological subjects in art (Ovidian reception) (https://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/myth/hd_myth.htm (opens in a new tab)); British Museum collection — Ovidian gems, prints, and portraits (https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection (opens in a new tab)). 1471-12-01 (offset, driver industrial-policy-activism): The 1471 Opera prints the Fasti as a public Roman calendar-poem — ISTC — Ovid Opera, Bologna, Balthasar Azoguidus, 1471 (https://data.cerl.org/istc/io00126000 (opens in a new tab)); Cambridge Companion to Ovid (https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/cambridge-companion-to-ovid/ (opens in a new tab)). 1626-06-01 (cost, driver protection-of-minority-rights): Early modern painting markets treat Ovidian rape-metamorphoses as display myth — Met Heilbrunn — mythological subjects in art (Ovidian reception) (https://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/myth/hd_myth.htm (opens in a new tab)); British Museum collection — Ovidian gems, prints, and portraits (https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection (opens in a new tab)). 1626-09-01 (cost, driver institutional-corruption): Early modern commentaries print the Julia-adultery hypothesis as if it were a file — Cambridge Companion to Ovid (https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/cambridge-companion-to-ovid/ (opens in a new tab)); Britannica — Ovid (https://www.britannica.com/biography/Ovid-Roman-poet (opens in a new tab)). 2005-01-01 (cost, driver protection-of-minority-rights): Early-21st-century seduction-community texts cite Ars amatoria as a predecessor manual — Cambridge Companion to Ovid (https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/cambridge-companion-to-ovid/ (opens in a new tab)); Poetry Foundation — Ovid (https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/ovid (opens in a new tab)). 1915-01-01 (cost, driver humanitarian-access): Loeb Tristia prints the received account of displacement to a garrison town — Loeb Classical Library — Ovid (https://www.loebclassics.com/ (opens in a new tab)); Museum of National History and Archaeology Constanța (ancient Tomis) (https://www.minac.ro/ (opens in a new tab)). 1915-06-01 (cost, driver personal-data-protection): Printed Tristia make a police-and-snitch world of Augustan letters public — Loeb Classical Library — Ovid (https://www.loebclassics.com/ (opens in a new tab)); Cambridge Companion to Ovid (https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/cambridge-companion-to-ovid/ (opens in a new tab)). 1860-06-01 (cost, driver income-inequality): Nineteenth-century publishers extract school-market rents from expurgated Ovid — British Library — Ovid incunabula and later print (https://www.bl.uk/ (opens in a new tab)); Cambridge Companion to Ovid (https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/cambridge-companion-to-ovid/ (opens in a new tab)). 1887-01-01 (offset, driver social-cohesion): Constanța’s public Ovid statue makes the exile a civic tourist object — Museum of National History and Archaeology Constanța (ancient Tomis) (https://www.minac.ro/ (opens in a new tab)); Britannica — Ovid (https://www.britannica.com/biography/Ovid-Roman-poet (opens in a new tab)). 1502-06-01 (offset, driver industrial-policy-activism): Aldine and later 16th-century printers treat Metamorphoses as a world-epic school engine — British Library — Ovid incunabula and later print (https://www.bl.uk/ (opens in a new tab)); Met Heilbrunn — mythological subjects in art (Ovidian reception) (https://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/myth/hd_myth.htm (opens in a new tab)). 14