Ovid

Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso; 43 B.C.–A.D. 18), Latin poet. Popular in his time, he was exiled by the Emperor Augustus to the Black Sea in A.D. 8 and died there; his Sorrows and Letters from Pontus are pleas for his return. He was a master of erotic poetry, as in his Amores and The Art of Love, but his Metamorphoses, a collection of myths linked by the common theme of change, is considered to be his finest work.