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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 three canonical poets of Latin literature. The Imperial scholar Quintilian considered him the last of the Latin love elegists. 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 carmen et error, but his reluctance to disclose specifics has resulted in much speculation among scholars.
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Ovid is recognized as one of the three canonical poets of Latin literature alongside Virgil and Horace.
His masterpiece, Metamorphoses, is an extensive hexameter poem that compiles much of classical mythology.
The author excelled as a true master of the elegiac couplet in his famous collections of erotic poetry.
During his exile on the shores of the Black Sea, he wrote the collections Tristia and Epistulae ex Ponto.
In addition to his work as a poet, Ovid wrote a lost tragedy titled Medea and treatises on female cosmetics.