Augustus & Ovid

Did Augustus and Ovid live at the same time?

Yes. Augustus and Ovid lived at the same time for 57 years, from 43 BCE to 14.^[1][2][3][4]

Augustus · Ovid · Born in 63 BCE · Born in 43 BCE

Augustus

63 BCE–14

Politics & Leadership

First Roman Emperor

Ovid

43 BCE–17

Literature

Roman poet of the Metamorphoses

How Augustus and Ovid Are Connected

• Ovid was banished by Emperor Augustus to Tomis on the Black Sea, now Constanța in Romania. He gave the reason only as "a poem and a mistake," and the exact cause is still debated.^[3]

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