Publius Ovidius Naso (43 BC-c. 17 AD)
43 BC Born in Sulmo (C. Italy), into equestrian family Receives standard education, trains as lawyer, but becomes full-time poet. Attracts patronage of Messalla c. 20 BC Amores btw. 20 and 1 BC Heroides c. 1 BC Most of Ars Amatoria (Art of Love)
1 AD Remedia Amoris 2 AD onwards Metamorphoses and Fasti (latter unfinished) 8 AD Ovid banished to Tomi (now Constanza in Romania) 9 AD Tristia 13 AD onwards Epistulae ex Ponto (last part published after Ovid’s death)
c. 17 AD Death of Ovid Various other lost or undated works include Medicamina Faciei Femineae and Medea