In a scene from one of his works, Tereus rips out the tongue of Philomela to prevent her from reporting a rape.
This author wrote an epilogue that begins, "My work is finished now: no sword, nor fire, nor future / is capable of laying waste to it." The speaker of one poem asserts, "If Memnon's mother, if Achilles' mother, mourned for their sons" then "sad Elegia" must "unbind thy woeful hair in grief" to mourn for Tibullus. In a scene from one of his works, Tereus rips out the tongue of Philomela to prevent her from reporting a rape. This poet parodied the opening of The Aeneid in the first poem of his collection Amores, and he mourned his exile in Tomis in his collection Tristia. This poet's best-known work ends with a description of the apotheosis of Julius Caesar and includes the stories of Pyramus and Thisbe and Pygmalion. For 10 points, name this Roman poet who wrote The Metamorphoses.
This author wrote an epilogue that begins, "My work is finished now: no sword, nor fire, nor future / is capable of laying waste to it.
Publius Ovidius Naso