Description: In the melancholy elegies of the Tristia and Ex Ponto, Ovid (43 BC-AD 17) writes from exile in Tomis on the Black Sea, appealing to such people as his wife and the emperor.
Brief description: G. P. Goold was William Lampson Professor of Latin Language and Literature at Yale University, and General Editor of the Loeb Classical Library (1974-1999).