In 1988, German novelist Christopher Ransmayr published The Last World to widespread critical acclaim. Ransmayr’s novel is set in Tomi shortly after the death of Ovid and tells of a Roman admirer of the poet who is in search of a lost manuscript of the Metamorphoses.

Tristia is Ovid’s personal account of his banishment. Although he never reveals the reason for his exile in the book, he expresses his most personal and deep-seated feelings about his exile.

Nobel Laureate J. M. Coetzee’s novel Age of Iron (1997) tells the story of a dying elderly South African woman during apartheid. The war between blacks and whites is at its fiercest, and the letters the woman writes to her daughter who is in voluntary exile in America make up the narrative of the novel. Although not directly related to Ovid, Coetzee’s work is a prime example of how the Metamorphoses has been used as a model for writers of all genres and styles through the years.

After Ovid: New Metamorphoses (1995), edited by Michael Hofmann and James Lasdun, is an anthology of poetry that includes the works of forty-two poets from around the world whom the editors commissioned to “translate, reinterpret, reflect on, or completely reimagine” Ovid’s Metamorphoses. The poets include Nobel laureate Seamus Heaney, Ted Hughes, Amy Clampitt, and Charles Simic among others.

I, Claudius and Claudius the God, by Robert Graves, are the fictional accounts, written in the form of autobiographical memoirs, of Claudius, the Roman emperor who was famous for his stutter and his ability to survive the many intrigues and scandals of Augustus, Tiberius, and Caligula.