The Scapegoat: Ovid's Journey Out of Exilefollows the ancient Roman poet Ovid - enormously popular during his lifetime, and banished by the emperor Augustus to a remote city on the Black Sea - on his fictitious journey out of exile.
In the year 14AD, Publius Ovidius Naso - known as Ovid - is in his sixth year of banishment in Tomis, a small port on the Black Sea. He resists joining a conspiracy against the Emperor and hopes that his friend in...