Ovid
Exiled Latin poet
Ovid was a Roman poet (43 BCE–17 CE) whose works shaped Western literature for two millennia.
His *Metamorphoses*, a collection of mythological transformations, became the primary source for Greek and Roman myths in European art and literature.
Augustus exiled him to the Black Sea for reasons never fully explained—Ovid called it "a poem and a mistake."
Thorough change in form
- metamorphosisProfound biological restructuring
- DaphneNymph turned laurel
- ApolloSun deity, moonshot namesake
- NarcissusMyth's vain, doomed beauty
Echo · Pygmalion · Arachne · Icarus · Daedalus · Orpheus · Eurydice · Io
Poem lamenting the departed
- pentameterFive-foot poetic line
- hexameterSix-foot poetic line
- AugustanOf Rome's founding emperor
- VirgilClassical epic poet
European cultural reawakening
- ShakespeareElizabethan dramatist and poet
- TitianFamed Venetian Renaissance artist
- DanteItalian epic poet
- SpenserTudor allegorical poet
Bernini · Chaucer · Milton · Kafka · Ted Hughes · adaptation · allusion · intertextuality
Love goddess, or planet
- CupidRoman love deity
- JupiterLargest solar system planet
- DianaRoman hunting goddess
- BacchusRoman wine god
Minerva · Juno · Mars · Neptune · Ceres · Pluto · centaur · nymph
Forced removal from place
- AugustusRome's inaugural emperor
- relegationAssignment to lower status
- Black SeaLandlocked sea near Caucasus
- homesicknessLonging for one's dwelling
nostalgia · loneliness · isolation · estrangement · lament · desolation · alienation · final years
transformation
Thorough change in form
- metamorphosisProfound biological restructuring
- DaphneNymph turned laurel
- ApolloSun deity, moonshot namesake
Narcissus · Echo · Pygmalion · Arachne · Icarus · Daedalus · Orpheus · Eurydice · Io · Niobe
elegy
Poem lamenting the departed
- pentameterFive-foot poetic line
- hexameterSix-foot poetic line
- AugustanOf Rome's founding emperor
Virgil · Horace · neoteric · love poetry
Renaissance
European cultural reawakening
- ShakespeareElizabethan dramatist and poet
- TitianFamed Venetian Renaissance artist
- DanteItalian epic poet
Bernini · Chaucer · Spenser · Milton · Kafka · Ted Hughes · adaptation · allusion · intertextuality · reception
Venus
Love goddess, or planet
Bacchus · Minerva · Juno · Mars · Neptune · Ceres · Pluto · centaur · nymph · satyr
banishment
Forced removal from place
- AugustusRome's inaugural emperor
- relegationAssignment to lower status
- Black SeaLandlocked sea near Caucasus
homesickness · nostalgia · loneliness · isolation · estrangement · lament · desolation · alienation · final years
- poetspoet, Homer, Dante, Milton, Emily Dickinson
- Ancient PoetsHomer, Sappho, Virgil, Horace, Bacchylides
- Latin authorsVirgil, Cicero, Horace, Livy, Tacitus
- latin epic poetsVirgil
- Elegiac Poets
- Latin scholarshipLatin poetry, philology, classical texts, paleography, lyric poetry