Ovid

Publius Ovidius Naso (43 BCE–17/18 CE) was born in Sulmo, east of Rome, to a prosperous equestrian family. Educated in rhetoric and law, he abandoned a legal career to pursue poetry, quickly becoming the most popular and fashionable poet in Augustan Rome. His early works—the Amores, Ars Amatoria, and Heroides—established him as the supreme poet of love and desire. In 8 CE, Augustus exiled him to Tomis on the Black Sea for reasons that remain mysterious, possibly related to the emperor's moral legislation or a political scandal. This author hub collects 1 work in the Canon Compass ranking, led by Metamorphoses.