Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovide)

Roman poet known as Ovid to the English-speaking world, who wrote about love, seduction, and mythological transformation. He is considered a master of the elegiac couplet, and is traditionally ranked alongside Virgil and Horace as one of the three canonic poets of Latin literature. His poetry, much imitated during Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages, decisively influenced European art and literature.

Pūblius Ovidius (Nāsō 20 March 43 BC – 17/18 AD), known in English as Ovid 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. Although Ovid enjoyed enormous popularity during his lifetime, the emperor Augustus banished him to a remote province on the Black Sea, where he remained a decade until his death.

S-a născut (Sulmo, azi Sulmona, Aquila, Italia) pe data de 20 martie 43.
A murit (posibil anul 18, Tomis, azi Constanţa, România) în anul 17.