Tristia

About “Tristia”

The Tristia is a collection of poems written by the Roman poet Ovid in elegiac couplets. He composed these works during the first three years after being exiled from Rome to Tomis on the Black Sea in AD 8. The five books of the Tristia express Ovid's sorrow over his banishment, though the reason for his exile remains unknown. In addition to the Tristia, Ovid wrote the Epistulae ex Ponto, a series of elegiac letters about his exile, and a 642-line poem called Ibis, which contains a curse against an unnamed enemy. Ovid lived in Tomis for several years and died in AD 17 or 18 without returning to Rome. (Summary adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.)