Tried personally by Augustus himself, Ovid was found guilty of a crime that remains unclear.

The fact about Ovid's life that came to define him was his banishment in 8 CE to Tomi by the Roman Emperor Augustus. Between the publications of Amores and Metamorphoses, Ovid was married three times and fathered a daughter. Soon thereafter came The Art of Love, and in a six-year period between 2 and 8 CE, Ovid penned Metamorphoses. Loves was followed by Heroines, a collection of fictional letters from mythical heroines to their absent lovers. Ovid did return home to spend a year as a public official however, poetry soon became his passion, and, rather than choosing the life of a professional careerist, he began to work on his first book, Loves, or Amores, when he was 20 years old. Upon completion of his studies in Rome, Ovid spent a year in Athens studying philosophy, following which it was presumed by his family that he would return to his home to begin his career. To prepare for a professional career, he was sent to Rome to study rhetoric, the standard core of study for Roman education at the time. He was born into an upper-middle-class family. Of the details of Ovid's life, historians know very little. He died at the age of 61, in exile in the Black Sea port of Tomi, known today as Constantsa, Romania His most famous and revered work, and considered alongside the works of Homer and Virgil as among the world's masterpieces, is Metamorphoses, which he finished around 8 BCE. Considered to be one of the most influential poets in Western literary tradition, Ovid wrote several important works, including Heroines and The Art of Love. Publius Ovidius Naso, known as Ovid, was born in Sulmo, Italy on March 20, 43 BCE.

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