Ovid
For other uses, see Ovid (disambiguation). Ovid Statue (1887) by Ettore Ferrari commemorating Ovid's exile in Tomis (present-day Constanța, Romania) Born Publius Ovidius Naso [a] 20 March 43 BC Sulmo, Italy, Roman Republic Died AD 17 or 18 (age 58–60) Tomis, Scythia Minor, Roman Empire Occupation Poet Genre Elegy, epic, drama Publius Ovidius Naso ( Classical Latin: [ˈpu:.blɪ.ʊs ɔˈwɪ.dɪ.ʊs ˈnaː.soː] ; 20 March 43 BC – 17/18 AD), known as Ovid ( / ˈ ɒ v ɪ d / ) [1] in the English-speaking world, 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] He enjoyed enormous popularity, but, in one of the mysteries of literary history, was sent by Augustus into exile in a remote province on the Black Sea, where he remained until