Author: Ovid
Alternate names: Publius Ovidius Naso; Ovidio; Ovide; P. Ovidius Naso
Born: 20 March 43 BCE
Died: 17 or 18 CE)
Bio: Ovid, was a Roman  poet who is best known as the author of the Heroides, Amores, and Ars Amatoria, three major collections of erotic poetry, the Metamorphoses  a mythological hexameter poem, the Fasti, about the Roman calendar, and the Tristia  and Epistulae ex Ponto, two collections of poems written in exile on the Black Sea. Ovid was also the author of several smaller pieces, the Remedia Amoris, the Medicamina Faciei Femineae, and the Ibis, a long curse-poem. He also authored a lost tragedy, Medea. He is considered a master of the elegiac couplet, and is traditionally ranked alongside Virgil and Horace  as one of the three canonic poets of Latin literature. The scholar Quintilian  considered him the last of the canonical Latin love elegists.[1]  His poetry, much imitated during Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages, decisively influenced European art and literature  and remains as one of the most important sources of classical mythology.[2] ([Source][1].)

[1]:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ovid