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Monument to Ovid in ConstanceRoman city wallsRoman structureRoman structureTomis - ancient baths.Tomis - Roman structuretrajanswall

Location:

  • Romania, Constanţa
  • geo:44.173702,28.658716
  • Location ± 25-100 m.

Period or year:

  • -5x / unknown

Class:

  • City
  • invisible

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The roman poet Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso) was sent into exile to Tomis in the year 8 AD. This was by the exclusive intervention of the Emperor Augustus, without participation of the Senate or of any Roman judge. Ovid wrote that the reason for his exile was carmen et error – "a poem and a mistake", claiming that his crime was worse than murder, more harmful than poetry1.

https://www.academia.edu/30579095/%D0%A3%D0%BA%D1%80%D0%B5%D0%BF%D0%B8%D1%82%D0%B5%D0%BB%D0%BD%D0%B0%D1%82%D0%B0_%D1%81%D0%B8%D1%81%D1%82%D0%B5%D0%BC%D0%B0_%D0%BD%D0%B0_%D0%BF%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%BD%D1%86%D0%B8%D1%8F_%D0%A1%D0%BA%D0%B8%D1%82%D0%B8%D1%8F_%D0%BA%D1%80%D0%B0%D1%8F_%D0%BD%D0%B0_III_VII_%D0%B2_The_Defence_System_of_the_Late_Roman_Province_of_Scythia_the_end_of_the_3rd_the_7th_century_A_D_, p. 191.

References

  1. Wikipedia: Ovid


Nearby

The "sitting woman" and the "thinker" of Hamangia.

Nowadays in Constantia National History and Archaeology Museum.

Național History and Archeology Museum

Național History and Archeology Museum

Ovid was banished to Tomis ( 8 AD )

In AD 8, Ovid was banished to Tomis. Ovid died at Tomis in AD 17 or 18.


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