![]() ![]() ![]() Following the death of his brother at 20 years of age, Ovid renounced law and travelled to Athens, Asia Minor, and Sicily. According to Seneca the Elder, Ovid tended to the emotional, not the argumentative pole of rhetoric. His father wanted him to study rhetoric so that he might practice law. ![]() Along with his brother, who excelled at oratory, Ovid was educated in rhetoric in Rome under the teachers Arellius Fuscus and Porcius Latro. Ovid was born in the Paelignian town of Sulmo (modern-day Sulmona, in the province of L'Aquila, Abruzzo), in an Apennine valley east of Rome, to an important equestrian family, the gens Ovidia, on 20 March 43 BC – a significant year in Roman politics. Statue of Ovid by Ettore Ferrari in the Piazza XX Settembre, Sulmona, Italy. ![]()
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