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Ovid

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(43 b.c.–a.d. 17) Roman Poet. According to some literary historians, Ovid was the most popular Roman poet. Ovid was born Publius Ovidius Naso near Rome to a middle-class family. He studied in Athens and traveled widely in Asia and Sicily. Ovid, as he was commonly known, began writing poetry as a young man and soon developed a strong following and reputation among the citizens of the Roman Empire. Ovid's greatest work is Metamorphoses, a collection of 15 books that used Greek and Roman mythology, particularly those stories of lovers who are transformed into other objects, to trace the history from the beginnings of Chaos to the rule of Julius Caesar. He also wrote Fasti, a poetic description of the Roman religious calendar and the myths and legends behind each festival. Rome's first emperor, Augustus, banished Ovid from Rome in a.d. 8. The poet died in exile in Tomi, a city on the Black Sea. In Europe's Middle Ages, Ovid's poetry was a primary source of knowledge of Greek and Roman mythology. It is still a prominent source of the stories of these ancient cultures.

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