Roman poet (43 BC – 17/18 AD)
He wrote the handbook Rome's emperor couldn't forgive. Ovid's Art of Love taught seduction in couplets so sharp Augustus sent him to the edge of the empire — and never said why.
Born 20 March 43 BC, Publius Ovidius Naso came of age under Augustus, a younger contemporary of Virgil and Horace. He made his name with elegiac love poetry, including the Ars Amatoria, and became enormously popular. Then came the Metamorphoses: fifteen books of myth in dactylic hexameter, a continuous narrative that would outlive the empire itself. But in AD 8, Augustus exiled him to Tomis on the Black Sea — a carmen et error, Ovid said, "a poem and a mistake" — and he refused to say more. He spent the last nine or ten years of his life there, writing from the frontier. The Metamorphoses beca…
Sourced, dated quotes from Ovid
Heu quantum scelus est in viscera viscera condiingestoque avidum pinguescere corpore corpusalteriusque animans animantis vivere leto!
Carmina proveniunt animo deducta sereno.
Latin text with English translation
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