Professor, Doctor of Philology, N.V. Vulikh is one of the largest (not only in our country, but also abroad) experts who have devoted themselves to researching the work and biography of the remarkable Roman poet Publius Ovid Naso. This book is the result of many decades of serious and painstaking work. The reader is presented with the fate not of a “frivolous poet-rhetorician,” but of the most original and profound artist. The “Appendices” section, which contains new author’s translations, deserves special attention. The “Paired Epistles,” whose attribution to Ovid has long been disputed, are published in Russian for the first time.