Roman
Ovid was a Roman poet of the Augustan age, author of the Metamorphoses, the epic compendium of classical myth that profoundly shaped Western art and literature.
Publius Ovidius Naso (43 BCE – 17/18 CE) was one of the great poets of the Roman golden age, famed for his wit, inventiveness, and mastery of love poetry before he was mysteriously exiled by the emperor Augustus.
His masterpiece, the Metamorphoses, is a sweeping narrative poem gathering hundreds of myths united by the theme of transformation, from the creation of the world to the deification of Caesar. It became the single most important source of classical mythology for later Western artists and writers, from Shakespeare to the painters of the Renaissance. He also wrote the Art of Love and the exile poetry of the Tristia.
Ovid is celebrated as one of the supreme poets of antiquity, whose retellings of myth have shaped the Western imagination for two thousand years.
by Ovid
Two hundred and fifty myths from the creation of the world to the deification of Julius Caesar, unified by the theme of transformation. Apollo and Daphne, Narcissus and Echo, Pygmalion, Actaeon, Orpheus and Eurydice, the Fall of Icarus — the source of more subsequent Western art than any other single text.
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