Ovid
Roman poet (43 BC – 17/18 AD) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Publius Ovidius Naso (Latin: [ˈpuːbliʊs ɔˈwɪdiʊs ˈnaːsoː]; 20 March 43 BC – 17/18 AD), known in English as Ovid (/ˈɒvɪd/ OV-id),[1] was a Roman poet who lived during the reign of Augustus. He was a contemporary of the older Virgil and Horace, with whom he is often ranked as one of the three canonical poets of Latin literature. The Imperial scholar Quintilian considered him the last of the Latin love elegists.[2] Although Ovid enjoyed enormous popularity during his lifetime, the emperor Augustus banished him to Tomis, a Dacian province on the Black Sea, where he remained a decade until his death.
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| Born | Publius Ovidius Naso[a] 20 March 43 BC Sulmo, Italy, Roman Republic |
| Died | 17 or 18 AD (age 59–61) Tomis, Scythia Minor, Roman Empire |
| Occupation | Poet |
| Genre | Elegy, epic, drama |
| Notable works | Metamorphoses |