![]() ![]() Ovid apparently began writing his Amores in 26 or 25 BC he tells us that he wrote poems about the lover he calls Corinna as a young man of 17 or 18. Despite much pleading Ovid was never allowed to return from Tomis, and died there in (probably) AD 17. ![]() 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). 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. He married at least three times, and had a daughter and two grandchildren. Ovid was a conspicuous success as a student 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. ![]() His family, which must have been locally prominent and relatively wealthy, were Roman citizens of equestrian rank, and seem to have intended Ovid for a political career in Rome. ![]() 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. ![]()
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