Ovid
43 BCE – 17 Roman poet
The poet of the Metamorphoses, a treasury of classical myth.
- Religion
- Roman state religion, playfully handled in his mythological poems.
- Affiliations
- None. Exiled by Augustus to the Black Sea coast.
Ovid retold hundreds of Greek and Roman myths in the Metamorphoses, a work that carried classical stories into all later European art. His witty love poetry and his exile by Augustus made him a figure of romance and rebellion. Chaucer, Shakespeare, and countless others drew on him.