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The Poems of Exile: Tristia and the Black Sea Letters (1st Edition) by Peter (Translator) Ovid/ Green, Peter Green (Translator And Introduction), C. Ovid Paperback, 546 Pages, Published 2005 ISBN-10: 0-520-24260-2 / 0520242602 ISBN-13: 978-0-520-24260-9 / 9780520242609 In the year A.D. 8, Emperor Augustus sentenced the elegant, brilliant, and sophisticated Roman poet Ovid to exile - permanently, as it turned out - at Tomis, modern Constantza, on the Romanian coast of the Black Sea. The real reason for the emperor's action has never come to light, and all of Ovid's |