The Romans also conquered or settled extensively on the north shore of the Black Sea. The poet Ovid was exiled to an across-the-Danube podunk in what is now Romania.
Exile of Ovid
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exile_of_Ovid
The Roman Empire: in the First Century. The Roman Empire. Writers. Ovid | PBS
http://www.pbs.org/empires/romans/empire/ovid.html
Ovid
Poems from Exile
Translated by A. S. Kline
http://www.google.com/search?q=Ovid+in+exile
Augustus Caesar and the Exile of Ovid: a Mystery Revisited
Jean Noel Tribolo Â
Tuesday, October 16, 2012
http://romanarcheo.blogspot.com/2012/10/augustus-caesar-and-exile-of-ovid.html
Augustus Caesar and the Exile of Ovid: a Mystery Revisited
By Christopher Villeseche
October 15, 2012
http://www.historyoftheancientworld.com/2012/10/augustus-caesar-and-the-exile-of-ovid-a-mystery-revisited/
Map:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Augusto_30aC_-_6dC_55%25CS_jpg.JPG
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/76/Augusto_30aC_-_6dC_55%25CS_jpg.JPG
Every body* knows that the pre-historic peoples known as the Greeks migrated down from the area now called Scandinavia at the end of the Climatic Maximum.
The Hellenes went by land and the Dorics by sea.
Read it in a book so it has to be true!
* hehehe
