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Ovid  (Publius  Ovidius  Naso)  was  a  Roman  poet  born  in  Sulmo  on  March  20th,  43BC
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   He  was  a  provincial,  born  into  a  
respectable  family,  and  he  was  sent  to  Rome  with  his  brother,  where  he  was  educated,  
studying  rhetoric
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   Due  to  his  class  he  was  
expected  to  have  an  official  career,  but  first  he  travelled  to  a  finishing  school  in  Athens,  then  
Asia  Minor  and  Sicily
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Ovid’s  first  work,  the  Amores,  written  in  about  16BC,  was  immediately  successful,  followed  
by  similar  success  with  others
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   His  third  marriage,  however,  was  successful
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   This  showcased  Ovid’s  willingness  to  go  against  conventions  of  his  times;  
after  Virgil’s  Aeneid,  other,  lesser  works  of  historical  poetry,  seemed  to  be  automatically  
discounted,  but  Ovid  set  about  writing  an  epic  of  a  genre  which  was  then  unique  to  him
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   After  his  exile  to  
Tomis,  Ovid  became  depressed,  turning  ever  more  to  his  poetry  to  relieve  this
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Ovid  is  known  for  pioneering  a  technical  advance  in  Latin  poetry,  due  to  his  ability  to  adapt  
the  Latin  language  to  fit  with  dactylic  Greek  metres,  allowing  him  to  use  both  hexameter  
and  the  elegiac  couplet
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   His  hexameters,  particularly  in  the  
Metamorphoses,  are  very  good  examples  of  vivid  and  fast-­‐paced  narrative
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However,  he  is  known  as  one  of  the  greatest  poets  of  all  time,  based  on  his  incredible  ability  
to  create  fantastical  parallels  to  the  real  world,  something  which  was  individual  to  him
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