Like Arachne, Ovid is an artist whose productions get him into trouble. Ovid's notorious Art of Love was one of the reasons why the poet was sent into exile by Augustus. Although the poem's most obvious impropriety lay in its incitement to adultery (thus flouting Augustus' commitment to 'family values'), more particularly subversive were the subtle associations made between the imperial family and the lewd strategies counseled by Ovid's knowing narrator – he recommended the porticoes of Livia and Octavia as likely pick-up joints. Like Arachne, Ovid cocked a snook at authority and suffered the consequences.