Shakespeare A to Z | Ovid: 43 B.C.–A.D. 18, Roman poet
Ovid was one of the greatest ancient Roman poets. Having gained fame as a poet during the reign of the Roman emperor Caesar Augustus, Ovid enjoyed success until A.D. 8, when he was banished from Rome because some of his love poems had allegedly led the emperor’s daughter to commit adultery. Ovid spent the rest of his life in an isolated fishing village along the Black Sea.
Ovid’s poems, which feature tales from Greek and Roman mythology, had a major influence on Shakespeare’s works. Among the poet’s finest works is the Metamorphoses, a collection of poems linked by the...
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