Publius Ovidius Naso, aka Ovid, (43 B.C. – 17 A.D), one of the celebrated Roman poets, was banished from Rome by Emperor Augustus. Ovid spent his exile years in Tomus, a small village in today’s Romania, where he completed his literary work on “The Memorphoses”, a collection of stories about Greek and Latin mythology that would influence writers such as Shakespeare and Göthe.