Happy Birthday Ovid!
Often described as one of the most important figures to know of ancient history, Ovid’s prolific writing influenced Chaucer, Shakespeare, Dante, and Milton.
Publius Ovidius Naso, or Ovid, was born on March 20, 43 BCE in Sulmona, Italy to a wealthy family. He studied in Rome to become a public speaker and politician but to the dismay of his father, he used what he had learned to write poetry.
Though critics in antiquity were not always kind, considering his work to be frivolous, his writings remain some of the most important work of the ancient world.
Read and/or download Ovid’s epic meter of dactylic hexameters, “Metamorphoses."
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