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Ovid

43 BCE–c. 17 CE · 1st century BCE · Also known as Publius Ovidius Naso

Ovid was a Roman poet, born at Sulmo in the land of the Paeligni in 43 BCE, the author of the Metamorphoses, the Art of Love and the Fasti, a poem on the Roman calendar and its festivals. In 8 CE Augustus banished him to Tomis on the Black Sea, where he wrote the Tristia and the Letters from Pontus, lamenting the cold and his barbarian neighbours, and he died there around 17 CE.

Ovid
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