Ovid
Also known as: Publius Ovidius Naso · P. Ovidius Naso
- 1Ovid was a contemporary of the poets Virgil and Horace.
- 2He was exiled to Tomis in the province of Moesia by the emperor Augustus.
- 3He spent the last nine or 10 years of his life in exile.
- 4His banishment was attributed by the poet himself to a carmen et error.
Publius Ovidius Naso, known in English as Ovid, was a Roman poet who lived during the reign of Augustus.
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Wikidata records “author” from Metamorphoses to Ovid.
Primary literary source for the Icarus myth
The Roman poet Ovid provided the most detailed and influential account of the flight and fall of Icarus in his work 'Metamorphoses'.
Publius Ovidius Naso, widely known as Ovid, was a preeminent Roman poet who flourished during the reign of the emperor Augustus. Alongside Virgil and Horace, he is recognized as one of the three canonical poets of Latin literature.
A statue of Ovid by Ettore Ferrari is shown in the Piazza XX Settembre in Sulmona, Italy. It is a duplicate of an 1887 original found in Constanța, Romania.Wikimedia Commons: File:Sulmona0001.jpgOvid Banished from Rome (1838), by J.M.W. TurnerWikimedia Commons: File:Turner_Ovid_Banished_from_Rome.jpgA statue of Roman poet Ovid in Constanța is shown. In 1925, an identical replica was made in Sulmona, Italy.Wikimedia Commons: File:Statue_of_Roman_poet_Ovid_in_Constanţa,_Romania.jpgMedea in a fresco from HerculaneumWikimedia CommonsEngraved frontispiece of George Sandys 's 1632 London edition of Ovid's Metamorphoses EnglishedWikimedia CommonsA 1484 figure from Ovide Moralisé, edition by Colard MansionWikimedia CommonsDelacroix, Ovid among the Scythians, 1859; National Gallery in LondonWikimedia CommonsOvid as imagined in the Nuremberg Chronicle, 1493Wikimedia Commons Despite his immense popularity, Ovid's life took a dramatic turn when he was exiled by Augustus to Tomis, located on the Black Sea. He spent the final decade of his life in this remote province. Ovid cryptically attributed his banishment to a carmen et error, a phrase that has sparked centuries of scholarly debate regarding the true cause of his disgrace.