Ovid (Great Lives from History: The Ancient World, Prehistory-476)
Early Life
Publius Ovidius Naso, or Ovid (AWV-ihd), was born in 43 b.c.e. in what is now central Italy. As his family was a locally prominent one, he enjoyed the advantages of an education and preparation for an official career. Ovid’s youth was during a period of political chaos. Rome was still nominally a republic, but Julius Caesar had made himself dictator. When Caesar was murdered in the year before Ovid’s birth, the Roman world was plunged into civil war. Peace was not truly restored...
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