1. Publius Ovidius Naso
(43 BC-c. 17 AD)

2. 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)

3. 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)

4. c. 17 AD Death of Ovid
Various other lost or undated works include
Medicamina Faciei Femineae and Medea