Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso, 43 BC-AD 17), Roman poet, born at Sulmo, in a valley of the Apennines east of Rome. His amatory poems, Heroides (or Heroidum epistulae, 'letters of heroines'), are twenty-one studies of love from the woman's point of view. Letter #7 is from Dido to Aeneas.