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Ovid

43 BC - 17

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Publius Ovidius Naso (Latin: [ˈpuːbliʊs ɔˈwɪdiʊs ˈnaːsoː]; 20 March 43 BC – AD 17/18), known in English as Ovid ( OV-id), was a Roman poet who lived during the reign of Augustus. He was a younger contemporary of Virgil and Horace, with whom he is often ranked as one of the three canonical poets of Latin literature. The Imperial scholar Quintilian considered him the last of the Latin love elegists. Although Ovid enjoyed enormous popularity during his lifetime, the emperor Augustus exiled him to Tomis, the capital of the newly-organised province of Moesia, on the Black Sea, where he remained for the last nine or ten years of his life. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Ovid is the 21st most popular writer (up from 25th in 2019), the 34th most popular biography from Italy (down from 25th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Italian Writer.

Ovid is most famous for his epic poem Metamorphoses, which tells the stories of how the world and its people came to be.

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Among writers, Ovid ranks 21 out of 7,302. Before him are Jules Verne, Virgil, Molière, Miguel de Cervantes, Jean-Paul Sartre, and T. S. Eliot. After him are Alexandre Dumas, Albert Camus, Hesiod, Anton Chekhov, Rumi, and Petrarch.

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Among people born in 43 BC, Ovid ranks 1. After him is Iullus Antonius. Among people deceased in 17, Ovid ranks 1. After him are Livy, Gaius Julius Hyginus, Thusnelda, Archelaus of Cappadocia, and Antiochus III of Commagene.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Ovid ranks 34 out of 5,161. Before him are Caravaggio (1571), Pope Pius IX (1792), Marcus Aurelius (121), Sandro Botticelli (1445), Nero (37), and Francis II, Holy Roman Emperor (1768). After him are Pope Pius XI (1857), Petrarch (1304), Amerigo Vespucci (1454), Geta (189), Caligula (12), and Pope Pius X (1835).

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Among WRITERS In Italy

Among writers born in Italy, Ovid ranks 3. Before him are Dante Alighieri (1265), and Virgil (-70). After him are Petrarch (1304), Giovanni Boccaccio (1313), Horace (-65), Umberto Eco (1932), Giacomo Casanova (1725), Giorgio Vasari (1511), Cato the Elder (-243), Carlo Collodi (1826), and Plautus (-254).

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