Born to a provincial family of wealth, status, and privilege (ca. 353) in Roman Gaul, Meropius Pontius Paulinus entered upon the career of a Roman officeholder to which this birth virtually entitled him. It was after he had returned from this Italian service to his ancestral est…
by Ovide
fromBibliotheca scriptorvm graecorvm et romanorvm tevbneriana
by Gaertner, Jan Felix, Ovidius Naso, Publius
fromOxford classical monographs
"In AD 8 Ovid - at that time indisputably the premier poet of Rome - was suddenly banished to Tomis on the Black Sea. Ovid's reaction to his situation in exile is expressed in the epistolary elegies of the Tristia and the Epistulae ex Ponto. The present edition of the first book…
