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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.

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    • 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.

    Ovid is most famous for the Metamorphoses, a continuous mytholog