Epistulae ex Ponto

Ex Ponto (Letters from the Black Sea)

Author

Ovid

Language

Classical Latin

Year

13

Country

Roman Empire

Genre

Correspondence / Letters

graeco-romanelegies

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Epistulae ex Ponto is a work of Ovid, in four books. It is a collection of letters describing Ovid's exile in Tomis written in elegiac couplets and addressed to his wife and friends. The first three books were composed between AD 12 and 13, according to the general academic consensus: "none of these elegies contains references to events falling outside that time span". The fourth book is believed to have been published posthumously.