Ovid
Publius Ovidius Naso (; 20 March 43 BC – AD 17/18), known in English as
Ovid ( ), was a
Roman poet who lived during the reign of
Augustus. He was a younger contemporary of
Virgil and
Horace, with whom he is often ranked as one of the three
canonical poets of
Latin literature. The
Imperial scholar
Quintilian considered him the last of the Latin love
elegists. Although Ovid enjoyed enormous popularity during his lifetime, the emperor Augustus
exiled him to
Tomis, the capital of the newly-organised province of
Moesia, on the
Black Sea, where he remained for the last nine or ten years of his life. Ovid himself attributed his banishment to a "poem and a mistake", but his reluctance to disclose specifics has resulted in much speculation among scholars.
Ovid is most famous for the ''
Metamorphoses'', a continuous mythological narrative in fifteen books written in
dactylic hexameters. He is also known for works in
elegiac couplets such as ("The Art of Love") and ''
Fasti''. His poetry was much imitated during
Late Antiquity and the
Middle Ages, and greatly influenced
Western art and
literature. The ''Metamorphoses'' remains one of the most important sources of
classical mythology today.
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