... Tristia (five books with fifty elegies; 8–12 ce) and his Black Sea Letters (Epistulae ex Ponto; four books with 46 elegies; between 12 ce and his death) are an extensive canvas on which to trace Ovid’s tempestuous psychological trajectory...

...2020 In 8/9 CE Ovid was sent by the emperor Augustus to the town of Tomi in modern Romania, at the time at the far edge of the Roman Empire. 'Exile poetry' focuses on the Tristia (Sad Songs) and the Epistulae ex Ponto (Letters from the Black Sea), in total nine books of laments in which Ovid begs...

...Latin Poetry in the Ancient Greek Novels. Daniel Jolowicz, Oxford University Press (2021). © Daniel Jolowicz. DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780192894823.003.0003 Chapter 2 establishes Ovid’s Heroides, Tristia, and Epistulae ex Ponto as central to a number...

... of the literary and philosophical traditions of natural science, ethnography, and paradoxography in his exile poetry (Tristia and Epistulae ex Ponto) to depict his exilic locale, Tomis, as a place of elemental confusion and chaos, where nature’s laws and the elements...