place
Tomis
also: Tomitae, Tomitans
The half-Greek town on the western Black Sea coast (modern Constanța) to which Augustus relegated Ovid; a Milesian colony ringed by Getic and Sarmatian tribes.
Reading notes
- Letters from the Black Sea §1.1 Tomitan land
Tomis, the half-Greek frontier town on the western Black Sea (modern Constanța) where Ovid was relegated in AD 8; the place of composition of all the exile poetry.
- Letters from the Black Sea §1.2 the Tomitans
The inhabitants of Tomis; Ovid stresses how little known their remote region is even to Rome's rulers.
- Ibis §20 Sarmatian and the Getic arrows
The barbarian arrows of the lower Danube around Tomis — Ovid's own place of exile, the ultimate curse: 'may you live and die here.'
- Sorrows §1.2 Tomitans
The people of Tomis, the remote Black Sea town to which Ovid is bound.