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Ovid

The Roman poet Ovid with a laurel wreath from an engraving.
Personal information
Birth dateMarch 20, 43 BCE
Place of birthSulmo, Roman Republic
Date of death17 or 18 CE
OccupationPoet
Influenced byCatullus, Virgil, Homer, Cicero
InfluencedRenaissance painters, Dante Alighieri, Geoffrey Chaucer, John Milton, William Shakespeare Percy Bysshe Shelley

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Publius Ovidius Naso (20 March 43 BCE - 17 or 18 CE), known as Ovid in the English-speaking world, was a Roman poet who is best known as the author of the three major collections of erotic poetry: Heroides, Amores, and Ars Amatoria. He is also well known for the Metamorphoses, a mythological hexameter poem, the Fasti, about the Roman calendar, and the Tristia and Epistulae ex Ponto, two collections of poems written in exile on the Black Sea. Ovid was also the author of several smaller pieces, the Remedia Amoris, the Medicamina Faciei Femineae, and the long curse-poem Ibis. He also authored a lost tragedy, Medea. He is considered a master of the elegiac couplet, and is traditionally ranked alongside Virgil and Horace as one of the three canonic poets of Latin literature. The scholar Quintilian considered him the last of the canonical Latin love elegists. His poetry, much imitated during Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages, decisively influenced European art and literature and remains as one of the most important sources of classical mythology.


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