Life of a Poet

Publius Ovidius Naso, known today as the poet Ovid, was born in 43BC to a fairly wall-to-do family in Sulmona, Italy. He grew up and attended college, studying law. After his dad died, Ovid quit working for a degree in law and focused his energies in writing; he had noticed that most of his work on litigations had some sort of rhythm--thus inspiring his life-long career. During his lifetime he wrote several books, most of which are notoriously cheeky and brusque. Unfortunately most of the material he wrote about is a reflection of his personal life. One of his tomes is a the chronicles of the mythic gods of the ancients: The Metamorphoses, which is in fact profitable reading. Later in his life he was banished, because of the infamous nature of several of his writings, to an island in the middle of the Black Sea by the Emperor of Rome. There he remained until his death in 17AD.