Pagine43 BC–AD 17/18 · Sulmo (Sulmona), Italy · also known as Publius Ovidius Naso
Ovid was the wittiest of the Roman poets. His Metamorphoses (AD 8) weaves some 250 myths of transformation — Echo and Narcissus, Daedalus and Icarus, Pyramus and Thisbe — into one flowing poem, and became the main source of Greek myth for later artists from Shakespeare to Titian. In AD 8 the emperor Augustus exiled him to Tomis on the Black Sea for reasons that remain a mystery.
Begin with Metamorphoses.
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Ovid was the wittiest of the Roman poets. His Metamorphoses (AD 8) weaves some 250 myths of transformation — Echo and Narcissus, Daedalus and Icarus, Pyramus and Thisbe — into one flowing poem, and became the main source of Greek myth for later artists from Shakespeare to Titian.
Metamorphoses is usually considered Ovid’s best-known work.
Most readers start with Metamorphoses.
Both refer to the same writer.
Yes — 1 of Ovid’s books are free to read online in Pagine, the free e-reader and reading tracker.