The Metamorphoses of Ovid | Overview

The Life and Work of Ovid
The title, Metamorphoses, is Greek and means “transformations” or “changes.” The author, Ovid, used ancient Greek myths as his principal subject matter and used the idea of changes as his leading motif—connecting the individual episodes within the poem.

Ovid was born as Publius Ovidius Naso in 43 B.C. in what is now central Italy. He died in Tomi, now Constanta, in A.D. 18.

His father, a landowner of some means, spared no expense in educating him; Ovid studied in Rome, and traveled over much of the Roman...


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