Ovid

Ovid
Ovid
	Statue (1887) by Ettore Ferrari ; commemorating Ovid's exile in Tomis ; (present-day Constan?a , Romania)
Born	Publius Ovidius Naso ; 20 Mairch 43 BC ; Sulmo , Italia , Roman Republic
Dee'd	AD 17 or 18 (age 58?60) ; Tomis , Scythia Minor , Roman Empire
Thrift	Poet
Genre	Elegy , epic , drama

Publius Ovidius Naso (20 Mairch 43 BC ? AD 17/18), kent as Ovid in the Inglis -speakin warld, wis a Roman poet best kent for the Metamorphoses , a 15-beuk conteenous meethological narrative screivit in the meter o epic , an for collections o luve poetry in elegiac couplets , especially the Amores ("Love Affairs") an Ars Amatoria ("Airt o Love"). His poetry wis much imitatit durand Late Antiquity an the Middle Ages , an greatly influenced Wastren airt an leeteratur . The Metamorphoses remains ane o the maist important soorces o classical meethology . ^[1]

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↑ Mark P. O. Morford, Robert J. Lenardon, Classical Mythology ( Oxford University Press US, 1999), p. 25. ISBN 0-19-514338-8 ISBN 978-0-19-514338-6