Episode 64: Ovid's Exile (The Tristia and Epistulae ex Ponto)
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For mysterious reasons, in 8 CE, Ovid was exiled from Rome. Ovid’s last works were composed an ocean away from  Italy, on the western shore of the Black Sea.
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