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| 43 BC | Born 20 March at Sulmo. | 44 43 |
Assassination of Caesar. Establishment of Second Triumvirate. Proscriptions. |
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| c.31 | Ovid and his elder brother (by exactly one year) taken or sent to Rome to continue their education. They are granted by Augustus the rank of equites. | 31 30 30-19 29 28 |
Battle of Actium. Deaths of Antony and Cleopatra. Virgil is writing Aeneid. Octavian’s triple triumph. Census. |
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| c.27 | Ovid assumes the toga virilis. He marries. | 27 | Seventh consulship of Octavian, who accepts a share of running the state and assumes the name of Augustus. | |
| c.25 | Ovid’s patron is now Marcus Valerius Messalla Corvinus (64 BC-AD 8). He gives his first public reading. End of his formal education in rhetoric, and of his first marriage. | 25 | Valerius Messalla, having been appointed praefectus urbi, resigns a few days later. Agrippa completes Pantheon. | |
| 24 | Death of Ovid’s brother. | |||
| c.24-22 | Ovid travels in Greece, Asia Minor, and Sicily, with the poet Macer as tutor. | 23 | Augustus is ill. He receives wide-reaching powers. First three books published of Horace’s Odes. | |
| c.22 | Trains in public administration and law. | |||
| c.21-c.16 | Sits on various boards, including the tresviri and the decemviri stlitibus iudicandis. He is close friends with the poet Propertius. | 21 16 16-13 |
Agrippa made to marry Julia. Death of Propertius. Augustus in Gaul. |
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| c.15 | Publishes Amores. Marries for the second time, and has a daughter. The marriage is brief, possibly owing to the death of his wife. | |||
| c.14-c.1 | Writes Ars Amatoria, Cures for Love, Heroides, and On Facial Treatment for Ladies, dividing his time between Rome and his country villa a few miles outside the city. | 13 12 11 2 |
First consulship of Tiberius. Death of Agrippa. Tiberius is forced to marry Julia. Banishment of Julia. |
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| 1 | Publishes first two books of Ars Amatoria. c.1 Death of Ovid’s father, aged 90. | |||
| AD c.1 | Ovid’s third marriage. His wife, who is well connected and may have been in her early 20s, already has a daughter by her first husband. | |||
| AD 2 | Death of Lucius, son of Agrippa and Julia. | |||
| c.1-8 | Writes Metamorphoses. Begins Fasti. | 4 | Death of Gaius, brother of Lucius. Augustus adopts Tiberius. | |
| 8 | Banished by Augustus to Tomi. | 8 | Banishment of Julia, daughter of Agrippa and Julia. Death of Horace. | |
| 9-17 | In exile, completes Fasti (Calendar), of which only six books survive, and writes Tristia and Black Sea Letters. | 14 | Death of Augustus. Accession of Tiberius. | |
| 17/18 | Dies during the winter, in his 60th year, and is buried on the shore of the Black Sea. | 17 | Death of Livy. | |