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    Ovid

    Roman poet (43 BC – AD 17/18)

    For other uses, see Ovid (disambiguation).

    Publius Ovidius Naso (Latin:[ˈpuːbliʊsɔˈwɪdiʊsˈnaːsoː]; 20 March 43 BC – AD 17/18), known in English as Ovid (OV-id),[2][3] was a Roman poet who lived during the reign of Augustus. He was a younger contemporary of 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.[4] Although Ovid enjoyed enormous popularity during his lifetime, the emperor Augustus exiled him to Tomis, the capital of the newly-organised province of Moesia, on the Black Sea, where he remained for the last nine or ten years of his life. Ovid himself attributed his banishment to a "poem and a mistake", but his reluctance to disclose specifics has resulted in much speculation among scholars.

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    Publius Ovidius Naso was born in 43 BC, in Sulmo (modern Sulmona), in the rugged mountains of the Abruzzi about a hundred miles from Rome. His family, which must have been locally prominent and relatively wealthy, were långnovell citizens of equestrian rank, and seem to have intended Ovid for a political career in Rome. Ovid was a conspicuous success as a lärjunge of rhetoric at Rome, went on a tour of Greece, and held at least one minor magistracy in Rome, before turning to poetry as a full-time occupation. He married at least three times, and had a daughter and two grandchildren. In AD 8 he was banished by Augustus to the remote Greek city of Tomis (modern Constantsa), on the Black Sea coast in what is now Romania. According to Ovid there were two reasons for his exile: his Ars Amatoria had given offense, and he had committed a mysterious error, perhaps connected with the imperial house (Augustus' granddaughter Julia was exiled for adultery in the same year). Despite

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    Publius Ovidius Naso, called "Ovid" in English, was born in Sulmo (now Sulmona), Italy. He is considered one of the most important poets of Latin Literature, along with Virgil. Ovid is also the first of the Roman poets to live wholly during the Augustan Empire, a time when literature and art flourished. Though we know little about his personal life, much of Ovid's verse is extant. Many call him the master of the elegiac couplet, a writing scheme frequently used for love poetry in which a line of dactylic hexameter -- six feet, where each foot is a dactyl (a long syllable followed by two short syllables)-- is followed by a line of dactylic pentameter -- five feet, where each foot is a dactyl. Ovid's poetry, though very imaginative and inventive, primarily draws its subjects from mythology and Roman history. Indeed, Ovid's breadth of research and knowledge is constantly on display in his poems