Ovid

Ovid, whose Latin name was Publius Ovidius Naso, was born in Sulmo on 20 March 43 BCE, into a family of equestrian rank. He studied rhetoric in Rome, under Arellius Fuscus and Porcius Latro, before devoting himself to poetry. In the year 8, the emperor Augustus relegated him to Tomis, on the Black Sea, present-day Constanța, in Romania, for reasons that have remained obscure. In exile he wrote elegies and verse letters, and died in Tomis in 17 or 18.

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