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Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso, 43 BCE–18 CE?), a poet of ancient Rome. Public sources give no definite year of death; he is generally thought to have died in 17 or 18 CE. Ranked alongside Virgil and Horace, he is best known for the Metamorphoses, a fifteen-book narrative poem in hexameters that links numerous tales of transformation. His other works include Ars Amatoria, Fasti, the Amores, and Remedia Amoris, treating themes of love, myth, and the Roman calendar. In 8 CE Augustus exiled him to Tomis on the Black Sea, where he wrote his late poems and died. His work is noted for fluent narrative, rich imagination, and delicate psychological portrayal, and has deeply influenced later European literature.

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