- Born
- 20 March 43 BCE
- Died
- c. 17–18 CE
- Lived in
- Sulmo, Rome & Tomis on the Black Sea
Ovid was a Roman poet whose witty love poetry and epic Metamorphoses shaped European literature for centuries. His writing moves easily between humour, desire, myth, loss, and the idea that everything in life is subject to change.
A LESSER-KNOWN DETAILThe emperor Augustus banished Ovid to distant Tomis. Ovid blamed his exile on ‘a poem and a mistake’, but never revealed exactly what the mistake was.
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