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Theodorescu-Sion, Ovidio en el exilio, 1915, óleo sobre cartón, 36 x 43 cm.
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“Exile at Tomis,
a port originally settled by Greeks on the extreme confines of the Roman
Empire, was a cruel punishment for a man of Ovid’s temperament and habits. He
never ceased to hope, if not for pardon, at least for mitigation of sentence,
keeping up in the Tristia and the Epistulae ex Ponto (“Letters from the Black
Sea”) a ceaseless stream of pathetic pleas, chiefly through his wife and
friends, to the emperor. But neither Augustus nor his successor Tiberius
relented, and there are hints in the later poems that Ovid was even becoming
reconciled to his fate when death released him.”
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Ovid-Roman-poet
