Ovid

Literature & Philosophy43 BC – 17 AD

Metamorphoses

The great mythographer. The Metamorphoses — 250 myths woven into a single continuous poem of transformation — became the Renaissance's primary source for classical mythology and an inexhaustible well for painters and poets.

Key works

  • Metamorphoses~8 AD250 myths of transformation
  • Ars Amatoria~2 BCThe art of love — caused his exile

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