Publius Ovidius Naso (March 43 BC – 17/18 AD)
Bust of Ovid, the Latin Poet
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1. Metamorphoses (Transformations)
2. Heroides (Heroines)
Metamorphoses (Books of Transformations)
Page from the edition of Ovid’s Metamorphoses published by Lucantonio Giunti in Venice, 1497
In this collection of elegiac couplets, Ovid represents letters from famous women in mythology, writing to their husbands and lovers about the things they experienced.
Portrait of Penelope, extracted from Ovid’s Heroides, c. 1500
Epicurean thought intended to free humans from worrying over divine interference in their lives, and thus become happier.
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