Ovid

Publius Ovidius Naso, known in English as Ovid, was born in 43 BC in Sulmo, now Sulmona, in central Italy, into an old family of the equestrian class. His father sent him to Rome to study rhetoric in preparation for a career in law and politics, but he preferred poetry. His early works, the Amores and the Art of Love, are playful love poems, and the Heroides are imaginary letters from heroines of legend to the men who left them. His masterpiece, the Metamorphoses, completed around AD 8, is a long poem of about 250 myths, from the creation of the world to the time of Julius Caesar, linked by the theme of transformation, such as the stories of Daphne and of Daedalus and Icarus. He also wrote the Fasti, about the Roman calendar. In AD 8 the emperor Augustus banished him to Tomis, on the Black Sea, for reasons Ovid called 'a poem and a mistake'. From exile he wrote the Tristia and other poems pleading to return, but he died at Tomis in AD 17 or 18.

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Faith: Faith not well documented beyond the Roman religion of his time. Source: Wikipedia