Ovid and Covid

Ovid's place of exile Tomis (present-day Constanța, Romania) on the The Peutinger Map (Segment VIII), the 13th-century copy of a lost (possibly) Roman original map

A one-sided, anachronistic narrative of Ovid's exile to the Black Sea coast may be read like this: the Latin poet Ovid (born 43 BC – died 17 AD) was put into isolation at the outskirts of the …