Ovid (Cyclopedia of World Authors)
Publius Ovidius Naso, known as Ovid (AHV-uhd), was born in the Italian Apennines, northeast of Rome, in the last year of the Republic. He was brought up under the absolute rule of Augustus. His works depict the life of rich and fashionable Romans during the second half of Augustus’s reign, and with Ovid’s death the Golden Age of Roman literature came to an end.
Ovid’s father, of an equestrian family whose estates were never confiscated, sent the boy and his brother from Abruzzi to Rome, where they were educated by two famous rhetoricians, Arellius Fuscus and the...
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