Publius Ovidius Naso, who was said to be one of the great writers in the Golden Age in Rome was born March 20, 43 BC. Ovid was the first major Roman Poet to come out of the Augustan Age. Ovid was born to a middle class family in present-day Sulmona. Sulmona is located at the foot of the Maiella in Italy. There is not much known about Ovid’s family. There is, however, evidence that his family was locally prominent. It is also known that the death of his elder brother made him the focus of his family's hopes.
         Ovid went to school in Rome. He studied rhetoric and law with the famous teachers, Arellius Fuscus and Porcius Latro. Ovid embarked on a career in government, and he became either administrator of the mint or an administrator of prisons and executions. He also become a kind of judge and was on track to become the first Roman senator from Sulmona.
        Ovid tossed away his established life for poetry. He relished early fame as a poet. He wrote about a variety of subjects during his lifetime. He wrote works such as: Fasti, Amores(loves), Heroides(heroines), Medicamina Faciei Femineae(Women’s Facial Cosmetics), and most famous them of all, Metamorphoses. Ovid wrote to bring happiness.
         In 8 AD, Ovid was exiled to Islands of Tomis. It is there where his works begin to show and more vulnerable, sadder side of him. In exile, Ovid wrote Trista, which means Sorrows. The reason for Ovid’s exile is uncertain, but is vaguely expressed in the works Trista, and Epistulae. In Trista it says, “ Though two crimes, a song and mistake, have destroyed me,on the cause of the one deed I have to remain silent for I am not worthy of reopening your wounds, Caesar, It is more than enough that you have been pained once. The other charge remains: I am accused of becoming by a shameful song a teacher of obscene adultery.” In Ars. Amatoria, there is also clues to his exile. It states, “Why did I see anything? Why did I make my eyes guilty? Why did I recklessly learn of a sin?"
        Another story to why Ovid was exiled is because of his book “The Art of Love.” It was said that Emperor Augustus was angered by his “immoral work”, and connected him to his granddaughter Julia’s act of adultery. It’s said that his poetry was focused on his desire to pardoned.
       In Conclusion, Ovid was one of the great writers during the Golden Age. He was married three times, and threw away his established life in government for poetry. Ovid was exiled and died in 17 AD.