Tristia
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The Tristia is a collection of poems written in elegiac couplets by the Augustan poet Ovid during the first three years following his banishment from Rome to Tomis on the Black Sea in AD 8. Despite fi
Ovid Banished from Rome (1838) by J. M. W. Turner
Ovid
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Publius Ovidius Naso, known in English as Ovid, 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
Bust from the 2nd century AD, supposed "for no reason" to represent Ovid, Uffizi Gallery, Florence
Statue of Ovid by Ettore Ferrari in the Piazza XX Settembre, Sulmona, Italy. Duplicate of an 1887 original found in Constanța, Romania.
Statue of Roman poet Ovid in Constanța. In 1925, an identical replica was made in Sulmona, Italy.