Elba Island, fall AD 8 (Or maybe 9?); Ovidio spends a "vacation" at the house of his friend Máximo Cota (Ponto II 3, 83). Terrible news comes to him. By means of a decree of Augustus, he receives the fatal order by which Tomis (the current Romanian Constance) is exiled, in the nation of the Getas, on the shores of the Black Sea. Ovid was at the moment of his greatest literary splendor, recognized by his contemporaries as the best living poet, and after having glorified Julius Caesar and deified Augustus himself as Jupiter in his still unfinished Metamorphosis. Revaluing the Ovidian work of exile, in which he describes his suffering and longing for his homeland and life with his family, is an always necessary task. The lyricism of passages such as the elegy of the last night in Rome or those dedicated to his wife makes Tristezas y Pónticas –whose formal beauty is only comparable to the deep and intoxicating melancholy that its verses connote– unique texts worthy of a privileged place in the history of universal literature.