Considered to be one of the most influential poets of the Western literary tradition, Ovid lived in the Roman Republic during the reign of Emperor Augustus. Destined for a career in law, he was trained in oratory and rhetoric; but left his job as a minor judicial official to concentrate on writing. He spent the rest of his life creating a vast body of works, most of which survives till date. While there is confusion about the chronology of his early works, most scholars believe Amores to be his first published work, while his best known work is Metamorphoses, published almost a quarter of a century later. His other extant work of this period were Epistolae Heroidum, Medicamina faciei, the Ars amatoria, and the Remedia amoris, all of which reflected the pleasure-seeking society in which he moved, assuring him a place in the literary circle. However, these works might have also earned the wrath of Emperor Augustus, who wanted to establish a more moral society. Subsequently, Ovid was banished to the edge of the Roman Empire, where he lived and wrote until his death.