Pónticas

Publius Ovidius Naso (43 BC-17 AD) is one of the capital poets of Latin literature. Born in Sulmona, he has always shown an extraordinary facility for verse, which led him to be very prolific and successfully cultivate various genres. He was a fashionable poet among his contemporaries, until a sudden decision by Emperor Augustus condemned him to live in exile in Tomos, a city on the edge of the empire, on the shores of Ponto Euxino (the current Black Sea). The traumatic experience of exile became the central theme of his poetry. Pontic represents one of the masterpieces of universal literature on exile. In these epistolary poems pregnant with melancholy, pain and disappearance, Ovid addresses his loved ones and an unforgiving power that condemns him far from Rome to cry out against an unhappy fate.