Publius Ovidius Naso, known as Ovid in the English-speaking
world, was a Roman poet who lived during the reign of
Augustus.
Noted for his love poetry - much of which was rather near the
knuckle - his works encouraging adultery were considered so perverse that the
Emperor Augustus banished him from Rome.
Today, in our soulless society - he would probably get a
peerage!
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