Why was Ovid, the most popular author of his day, banished to the edges of the Roman Empire? Why do only two lines survive of his play Medea, reputedly his most passionate work and perhaps his most accomplished?

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The stage of his end life

was a floor of shadows,
the sounds of feet as cockroaches.